Death of Desire - 2nd Edition

Taylor & Francis

The Death of DesireAn Existential Study in Sanity and Madness\nAuthor(s): M. Guy Thompson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138790223, 978-1138790223\nSynopsis\nA stunning exploration of the relation between desire and psychopathology, The Death of Desire is a unique synthesis of the work of Laing, Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger that renders their often difficult concepts brilliantly accessible to and usable by psychotherapists of all persuasions. In bridging a critical gap between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, M. Guy Thompson, one of the leading existential psychoanalysts of our time, firmly re-situates the unconscious what Freud called \""the lost continent of repressed desires\"" in phenomenology. In so doing, he provides us with the richest, most compelling phenomenological treatment of the unconscious to date and also makes Freuds theory of the unconscious newly comprehensible. \n\nIn this revised and u.