World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis (Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series)

136 Pages·2011·0.23 MB·English

by  Robert D. Stolorow

World,
Affectivity,
Trauma
Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
Volume 35
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World, Affectivity, Trauma: Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-
Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Centered Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis Doris Brothers
Robert D. Stolorow
Vol. 26
Vol. 34 Living Systems, Evolving Consciousness, and
Change in Psychoanalysis: the Emerging Person: A Selection of Papers
An Analyst’s Reflections on the from the Life Work of
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Therapeutic Relationship
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Persons in Context: Léon Wurmser & Heidrun Jarass (eds.)
The Challenge of Individuality
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in Theory and Practice
Trauma and Human Existence:
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Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and
Philosophical Reflections
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Robert D. Stolorow
Toward an Emancipatory Psychoanalysis:
Brandchaft’s Intersubjective Vision Vol. 22
Bernard Brandchaft, Shelley Doctors, Psychotherapy and Medication:
& Dorienne Sorter The Challenge of Integration
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Expectations A Comparative Study of Self and Relationship
Frank M. Lachmann Judith Guss Teicholz
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Contextualism in Psychoanalytic Practice
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Psychodynamic Concepts of Cure
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Cancer Stories: Creativity and Self-Repair
Techniques Derived from Self and
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& James L. Fosshage Female Homosexuality:
Choice without Volition
Vol. 14 Elaine V. Siegel
Affects as Process:
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The Borderline Patient: Emerging Concepts
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Joseph D. Lichtenberg, Frank M. Lachmann,
The Borderline Patient: Emerging Concepts
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Robert D. Stolorow & George E. Atwood Toward a Comprehensive Model for
Schizophrenic Disorders: Psychoanalytic
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Essays in Memory of Ping-Nie Pao
Psychoanalysis and Motivation
David B. Feinsilver
Joseph D. Lichtenberg
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Structures of Subjectivity: Explorations in
Psychoanalytic Treatment:
Psychoanalytic Phenomenology
An Intersubjective Approach
George E. Atwood & Robert D. Stolorow
Robert D. Stolorow, Bernard Brandchaft, &
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Empathy, Volumes I & II
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World,
Affectivity,
Trauma
Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis
Robert D. Stolorow
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Stolorow, Robert D.
World, affectivity, trauma : Heidegger and post-Cartesian psychoanalysis /
Robert D. Stolorow.
p. cm. -- (Psychoanalytic inquiry ; v. 35)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-415-89344-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-0-203-81581-6
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1. Psychoanalysis and philosophy. 2. Existential psychology. 3.
Phenomenological psychology. 4. Psychoanalysis. I. Title.
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To Julia, Lisa, Ben, Stephanie, and Emily

Philosophy stands in the fundamental attunement of melancholy.
– Martin Heidegger
Philia begins with the possibility of survival [which] is the other
name of a mourning.
– Jacques Derrida
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