Psychoanalysing Ambivalence with Freud and Lacan: On and Off the Couch

by Stephanie Swales and Carol Owens

Book Overview

Taking a deep dive into contemporary Western culture, this book suggests we are all fundamentally ambivalent beings. A great deal has been written about how to love - to be kinder, more empathic, a better person, and so on. But trying to love without dealing with our ambivalence, with our hatred, is often a recipe for failure. Any attempt, therefore, to love our neighbour as ourselves - or even, for that matter, to love ourselves - must recognise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138328456
• ISBN13: 9781138328457
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"