Serge LeClaire

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A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death DrivePaperback, 1 March 1998

A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive
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Part of Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Print Length
92 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Date Published
1 Mar 1998
ISBN-10
0804731411
ISBN-13
9780804731416

Description

The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. We must all combat what the author calls "primary narcissism, " a projection of the child our parents wanted. Each of the book's five chapters begins with one or more case studies drawn from the author's clinical experience as a psychoanalyst. In these studies he links his central concern - the image of the child created by the unconscious desire of the parents - to other issues, such as the question of love, the concept of the subject, and the death drive. In the penultimate chapter, on transference, the author challenges the commonplace understanding of the analyst's impassivity. What does such impassivity imply, especially in the context of a "transferential love" between a female patient and a male analyst? In replying to this question, the author forcefully reassesses the relation of psychoanalysis to femininity, to the question, "What does a woman want?"

Product Details

Author:
Serge LeClaire
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 March 1998
Dimensions:
21.64 x 14.07 x 0.74 cm
ISBN-10:
0804731411
ISBN-13:
9780804731416
Language:
English
Location:
Stanford, CA
Pages:
92
Weight:
127.01 gm

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