Meaning and melancholia : life in the age of bewilderment / Christopher Bollas.

  • Bollas, Christopher
Date:
2018
  • Books

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Description

"Meaning and melancholia: life in the age of bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes. This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years."--Publisher.

Publication/Creation

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Physical description

xxxi, 142 pages ; 20 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-142) and index.

Contents

The search for meaning -- The great war and the manic moment -- The crash -- Human character changes -- Fractured selves -- Normopathy and the compound syndrome -- Transmissive selves -- New forms of thinking -- Resuscitation -- Anti globalization -- The democratic mind -- "I hear that" -- Paranoia -- Ideology -- The pieces of the puzzle.

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    History of Medicine
    PQZ /BOL
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  • 9781138497535