| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 253 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. I. "Listen, do you want to know a secret?" : selves untold or lost in translation -- Ch. 1. Privacy and passion : shadows in the analytic terrain / Judith Brisman -- Ch. 2. "It never entered my mind" : some reflections on desire, dissociation and disclosure / Philip M. Bromberg -- Ch. 3. Secrets of analytic love and the transformation of desire / Polly Young-Eisendrath -- Ch. 4. Desiring by myself / Adam Phillips -- pt. II. "Sympathy for a devil" : managing pain with pain -- Ch. 5. "Take a walk on the wild side" : regulation, compulsion and desire / Jean Petrucelli -- Ch. 6. "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then" : longing for a coherent mind. Interpreting implicit processes in the psychoanalytic exploration of mind / Richard A. Chefetz -- Ch. 7. S & M : I love your pain, do you like my disdain? / Ethel S. Person -- Ch. 8. "Oh what a blow that phantom gave me!" : observations on the rise of virtual desire / Edgar A. Levenson -- pt. III. "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" : reflections on a woman's relationship with her body and its adornments -- Ch. 9. A shoe is rarely just a shoe : women's accessories and their psyches / Elizabeth Halsted -- Ch. 10. Fetish : fashion, sex, and power / Candace Martin -- Ch. 11. Freud and the steam-powered vibrator / Rachel Maines -- Ch. 12. Lust and unlust : an interpersonal look at menopause / Sue Kolod -- pt. IV. "Like a moth to the flame" : singed by desire -- Ch. 13. Desire's dark alchemy : turning gold into dross / Seth Aronson -- Ch. 14. "Dangerous liaisons" : the splitting of desire in infidelity / Jill C. Howard -- Ch. 15. "Cabbin'd, cribb'd confin'd : kleptomania reconsidered / Janet Tintner -- Ch. 16. Strange dreams and evil inclinations : the emergence of forbidden desire / Tova Mirvis -- pt. V. Seduction in the garden of Eden -- Ch. 17. Seduced into Eden : the beginning of desire / Avivah Zornberg -- Ch. 18. The tree of knowledge, good and evil : conflicting interpretations / Lewis Aron |
| Summary |
A contemporary, interdisciplinary exploration of one of psychoanalysis's most foundational and fascinating areas of investigation. This anthology explores the vicissitudes and varieties of desire, its public and private, normative and transgressive, its light and dark expressions. It examines desire in its relational, cultural, clinical, physical, sexual and aesthetic forms. Collectively, these essays demonstrate an understanding of the difficulties of identifying and realizing desire, precisely because it is multiple, omnipresent, shape-shifting, ongoing and, perhaps, always ultimately unfulf |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Desire.
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Lust.
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Compulsive behavior.
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Psychoanalysis.
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addiction.
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psychoanalysis.
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Movements -- Psychoanalysis.
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Compulsive behavior
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Desire
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Lust
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Psychoanalysis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Petrucelli, Jean
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| ISBN |
9781849405348 |
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1849405344 |
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1283249499 |
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9781283249492 |
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