The importance of disappointment /
This book explores the nature of identity in late modern society, arguing that new possibilities of living, such as 'personal growth', are in fact illusions. This is shown by examining modern theories of death and ideas of masculinity.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1994.
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| Online-Zugang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=79954 |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Cutting out gingerbread people; The organisation of mourning; Psychoanalysis as the theory of disappointment; Looking on the bright side; The organisation of social life; The fragmentation of everyday life; The powerful self and its illusions; The disappointments of identity: what sort of man?; The false self of late modernity; The disappointed self; The values of psychoanalysis; References; Index.