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New. Abraham and Torok advocate a form of psychoanalysis that insists on the particularity of any individual's life story, the specificity of texts and the singularity of historical situations. In what is both a critique and an extension of Freud, they develop interpretive strategies with implications for clinicians, literary theorists, feminists, philosophers and all others interested in the uses and limits of psychoanalysis. Central to their approach is a general theory of psychic concealment, a poetics of hiding. Whether in a clinical setting or a literary text, they search out the unspeakable secret as a symptom of devastating trauma revealed only in linguistic or behavioural encodings. Their view of trauma provides the linchpin for new psychic and linguistic structures such as the "transgenerational phantom", an undisclosed family secret handed down to an unwitting descendant, and the intrapsychic secret or "crypt" which entombs an unspeakable but…
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The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1 Volume 1 Hardcover - 1994 - 1st Edition
by Nicolas Abraham; Nicholas T. Rand (Editor); Maria Torok
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- Title The Shell and the Kernel: Renewals of Psychoanalysis, Volume 1 Volume 1
- Author Nicolas Abraham; Nicholas T. Rand (Editor); Maria Torok
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 1994-09
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780226000879 / 0226000877
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.28 x 0.83 in (23.60 x 15.95 x 2.11 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Psychoanalysis, Freud, Sigmund
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 93047621
- Dewey Decimal Code 150.195
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