Code: 04916485

Longing for Nothingness

Name: Longing for Nothingness
Brand: Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers
SKU: 04916485
Price: 115.34 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Andrew Stein
ISBN: 9780765705778

by Andrew Stein

Language: English
Binding: Hardback
Number of pages: 194
Publisher: Jason Aronson Inc. Publishers, 2010
More about this

115.34 €

In stock at our supplier
Shipping in 14 - 21 days

Add to wishlist

Puzzle 1000 elementĂłw CherryPazzi. Bloomy Cactus Fireworks
8.98 € -4 %
Buy
Varieties of Monastic Experience in Byzantium, 800-1453
32.01 € -24 %
Buy
Art of the Saint John's Bible
44.33 € -9 %
Buy
Engaging Resilience: Heal the Physical Impact of Emotional Trauma: A Guide for Bodywork Practitioners
9.79 € -6 %
Buy
Pulapki okultyzmu
4.74 €
Buy
Brontes: A Life in Letters
28.88 € -9 %
Buy
Bibi & Tina - Spuk auf der Ferieninsel / Nadja und Nafari, 1 DVD
13.73 €
Buy
Rapid Plus Stage 9 Easy Buy Pack
328.58 € -9 %
Buy
Official Commentary on the UNIDROIT Convention on Substantive Rules for Intermediated Securities
439.79 €
Buy
Cxixth Psalm Paraphras'd in English Verse. by George Atwood,
25.55 € -2 %
Buy
Tratado de Derecho Administrativo. Tomo I. El Derecho Administrativo y Sus Principios Fundamentales
57.57 € -17 %
Buy
Beast Quest: Tecton the Armoured Giant
7.26 €
Buy
L'Art Du Souffleur A La Lampe Et Au Chalumeau
27.77 €
Buy
Understanding Language Acquisition
39.89 €
Buy
L'abominable tuf de les neus
11.91 €
Buy
Lectures Découverte N4 Adolescents:: Le coeur entre les dents - CD auido
11.40 €
Buy
Entropy And The Second Law: Interpretation And Misss-interpretationsss
25.24 €
Buy
Wirtschaftlichkeitsgebot Und Vertragsarzt Im Strafrecht
67.36 € -7 %
Buy
A Manual Of The History Of Philosophy
40.80 € -2 %
Buy
Tax Free Millionaire
25.55 € -2 %
Buy
Une histoire à lire tout seul : Mila et Noé font du ski - Niveau 3
6.35 €
Buy
Jeremiah 2
73.12 €
Buy
wortstark Basis - Differenzierende Ausgabe für Nordrhein-Westfalen 2012
12.72 €
Buy
Leadership with Synercube
50.50 € -9 %
Buy
Mapping the Terrain of Education Reform
69.79 €
Buy
The Vale Of Mowbray: A Historical And Topographical Account Of Thirsk And Its Neighborhood (1859)
32.72 € -2 %
Buy
Adjudicating Employment Rights
55.75 €
Buy
Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Toolkit
22.21 €
Pre-order

Give this book as a present today

Order book and choose Gift Order.
We will send you book gift voucher at once. You can give it out to anyone.
Book will be send to donee, nothing more to care about.

Book gift voucher sample Read more

You get 279 loyalty points

Book synopsis

In Longing for Nothingness: Resistance, Denial, and the Place of Death in the Nursing Home, Andrew Stein offers a groundbreaking new psychoanalytic treatment of the depression and other mental conflicts suffered by residents living in nursing homes. Freud famously argued that humans had a dual drive, toward life and toward death, and in this new study Stein shows that residents may suffer because they cannot control one part of that dualism, their "longing for nothingness." Weaving together elements of Freud's life and writings, Lacanian and Kleinian notions, and clinical material in a new and surprising manner, Stein shows that a frightening breakdown of symbolic and imaginary defenses opens nursing home residents to these deeply repressed longings. Because they often do not know how to respond, the result is an increase in their suffering and tendency to despair. Longing for Nothingness makes an impassioned plea for all people, not only residents of nursing homes, to fully acknowledge the role of death in the structures of their desires. By doing this, they will be spared the unnecessary suffering caused by the struggle to keep their longings for death repressed. Stein presents an alternate strategy: bringing the longings for death a little more into consciousness, where they can be addressed without fueling debilitating symptoms like depression and rage.