Michel Thys

On the Edge of Human Imagination

Philosophical Psychoanalytic Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this fascinating book, Michel Thys explores the limitations of human imagination and symbolisation, showing the potentially destructive result of a mind that cannot confront reality. His wide-ranging research takes us into the domain of the unimaginable, unthinkable and unspeakable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032802121
• ISBN-10: 103280212X
• Artikelnr.: 72488946

Autorenporträt

Michel Thys is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, and doctor of philosophy. He is a member of the Flemish Association of Psychoanalytic Therapy and the Belgian School of Psychoanalysis. He is former editor-in-chief of the Dutch-Flemish journal Tijdschrift voor Psychoanalyse. He works in private practice in Antwerp, Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: From Fascination to Desire for Being 1. Phenomenology of fascination
A dialogue with Sartre 2. Fear of self
destruction
Fascinating metamorphoses and solidified truth 3. I is a thing
On trauma and desire for being Part 2: From Body to Identity 4. Dysincarnation
The body on the edge of the symbolic 5. From discreet whispers to public shouts
Psychoanalysis and the culture of self
disclosure 6. Inevitable and elusive
Identity between melancholy and megalomania Part 3: Narrative Challenges 7. Hopper, Levinas and the quasi
subject
The subject outside time 8. The corpse of Polynices
The obscene and tragedy as fascinum 9. Monstrous Frankenstein
The narrative at the last minute Part 4: On the Edge of the Human 10. Disaster tourism and violent transformations
Cultural figures of the inhuman 11. From Charcot to Chaplin
On the infantile, the traumatic and the grotesque 12. The subject as ruin
Back to the desire for being Bibliography