{"product_id":"9781032106533-lacan-on-depression-melancholia","title":"Lacan on Depression and Melancholia","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLacan on Depression and Melancholia\u003c\/em\u003e considers how clinical, cultural and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited in order to facilitate properly psychoanalytical clinical practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLacan on Depression and Melancholia \u003c\/em\u003econsiders how clinical, cultural, and personal understandings of depression can be broken down and revisited to properly facilitate psychoanalytical clinical practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to this book highlight the role of neurotic conflicts underlying depressive affects, the distinction between neurotic and psychotic structure, the nature of melancholia, and the clinical value of Freudian and Lacanian concepts – such as object \u003ci\u003ea\u003c\/i\u003e, the Other, desire, the superego, sublimation – as demonstrated \u003ci\u003evia \u003c\/i\u003ea variety of clinical and historical cases. The book includes discussions of bereavement and mourning, transference in melancholia, suicidality and the death drive, excessive creativity, melancholic identification, neurotic inhibition, and manic-depressive psychosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLacan on Depression and Melancholia will be essential reading for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in practice and training, Lacanian clinicians, and scholars of Lacanian theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40703501762657,"sku":"9781032106533","price":39.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27285546.jpg?v=1760341079","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781032106533-lacan-on-depression-melancholia","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}