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Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt

Technical Challenges Posed by Cases of Narcissism and Perversion

By: Batya Shoshani,Michael Shoshani

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Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt

Technical Challenges Posed by Cases of Narcissism and Perversion

By: Batya Shoshani,Michael Shoshani

The challenges and crises that kept resurfacing in Michael and Batya Shoshani's work with extremely difficult patients hunted by anxieties of being, and in particular with perverse psychic organization, motivated them to write this book. It is an attempt to propose a clinical conceptualisation to enhance their understanding of these lost and confused patients, whose narcissistic struggle against human fate defies reality and truth, challenging the analyst and the analytic situation. Analysts, caught between their own perception of reality and truth and the wish to be empathetic to their patients' experiences and views of reality, often feel torn and as if standing on quicksand. Here, the authors are joining a contemporary movement in the psychoanalytic tradition whilst turning to other disciplines in order to better understand and explain the suffering of their patients. The use of literature, in particular the fictional works of Jorge Luis Borges; film, with an in-depth look at Roman Polanski's Bitter Moon (1992) and Denis Villeneuve's Incendies (2010); and philosophy, the ideas of Heidegger and how they link to those of Freud, coupled together with a solid grasp of psychoanalytic theory, such as reflections on Neville Symington's seminal theory of narcissism, interspersed with real-life case studies bring the chapters alive. Such interplay between the detailed clinical material and conceptual formulations to an interdisciplinary dialogue enables a different outlook that will enrich the ongoing professional discourse on these perplexing and illusive psychic phenomena.

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Phoenix Publishing House

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1800130074

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Etched in Flesh and Soul

The Auschwitz Number in Art

By: Batya Brutin

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The Auschwitz Number in Art

By: Batya Brutin

A series of numbers was tattooed on prisoners’ forearms only at one location - the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. Children, parents, grandparents, mostly Jews but also a significant number of non-Jews scarred for life. Indelibly etched with a number into their flesh and souls, constantly reminding them of the horrors of the Holocaust. References to the Auschwitz number appear in artworks from the Holocaust period and onwards, by survivors and non-survivor artists, and Jewish and non-Jewish artists. These artists refer to the number from Auschwitz to portray the Holocaust and its meaning. This book analyzes the place that the image of the Auschwitz number occupies in the artist’s consciousness and how it is grasped in the collective perception of different societies. It discusses how the Auschwitz number is used in public and private Holocaust commemoration. Additionally, the book describes the use of the Auschwitz number as a Holocaust icon to protest, warn, and fight against Holocaust denial.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110739968

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9783110739961

Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt

Technical Challenges Posed by Cases of Narcissism and Perversion

By: Batya Shoshani,Michael Shoshani

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Technical Challenges Posed by Cases of Narcissism and Perversion

By: Batya Shoshani,Michael Shoshani

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Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt

Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt

Etched in Flesh and Soul

Etched in Flesh and Soul

Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt

Timeless Grandiosity and Eroticised Contempt

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