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Father, Don't You See I'm Burning?: Reflections on Sex, Narcissism, Symbolism and Murder - From Everything to Nothing

Father, Don't You See I'm Burning?: Reflections on Sex, Narcissism, Symbolism and Murder - From Everything to Nothing


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This book from Dr Leonard Shengold presents a psychoanalytic view of the human life cycle, from the infant's narcissistic feeling of being everything to the final "nothing" at the end of life. "Father, don't you see I'm burning?" - a quote from a dream discussed by Freud - is used in a variety of contexts throughout the book to refer to the instinctual drives and bodily sensations that make up the infant's inner world. In symbolic form, these urges continue to dominate our psychic life, causing us to burn with desire, ambition, rage, and even the wish to murder our parents-in-the-mind for frustrating our insinctual demands. Ultimately we have to learn to settle for less and less than the everything we continue to desire. But, as "nothing" approaches, some of us develop a new sense of the preciousness of life and of other human beings. Others experience a resurgence of infantile need. Dr Shengold's reflections on sex, narcissism, symbolism, and murder are illustrated with clinical and literary examples, from "King Lear", personification of infantile demandingness, to Ibsen's "Master Builder", the soul-murderer par-excellence.

Table of Contents:
A note on "everything"; the decline of "everything"; "King Lear" and the multiple meanings of "nothing"; the body and the place - the meaning of geography; "Father, don't you see I"m burning?" - the geography of the journey in Freud's "Interpretation of Dreams"; the metaphor of the mirror; symbols and the symbol of telephoning; body parts as symbols - the shoulder; aggression and danger; the analytic place; proceeding towards nothing - Ibsen and "The Master Builder"; something and enough; coda - the problem of evil.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780300050042
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press
  • Height: 60 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 480 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0300050046
  • Publisher Date: 22 May 1991
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Reflections on Sex, Narcissism, Symbolism and Murder - From Everything to Nothing
  • Width: 42 mm


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