Desire, Pain and Thought - Marilia Aisenstein

Desire, Pain and Thought

Primal Masochism and Psychoanalytic Theory
Buch | Hardcover
82 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-05462-9 (ISBN)
149,60 inkl. MwSt
Desire, Pain and Thought presents a new perspective on primal erotogenic masochism, which Marilia Aisenstein regards as the core of psychoanalytic theory. Aisenstein distinguishes between pathological masochism – the active search for pain – and primal erotogenic masochism, which she believes develops in early childhood.
Desire, Pain and Thought presents a new perspective on primal erotogenic masochism, which Marilia Aisenstein regards as the core of psychoanalytic theory.

Aisenstein distinguishes between pathological masochism – the active search for pain – and primal erotogenic masochism, which she believes develops in early childhood. Desire, Pain and Thought explains that the formation of this response in a child is essential to the survival of the individual and the development of resilience. Aisenstein skilfully and convincingly uses her deep understanding of metapsychology and her mastery of Freud’s seminal papers to demonstrate that thought is one of the manifestations of desire which implies a painful renunciation of the object of desire. By moving away from its pathological, negative connotation to a more positive one, the book presents an understanding of masochism as “the guardian of life”.

Desire, Pain and Thought will be essential reading for psychoanalysts in practice and in training.

Marilia Aisenstein is a training and supervising psychoanalyst of the Hellenic Psychoanalytical Society and the Paris Psychoanalytic Society. She is a former president of the Paris Society and of the Paris Psychosomatic Institute and editor and co-founder of the French Review of Psychosomatics. She has written both chapters and books, mainly on psychosomatics and hypochondria, transference, pain and destructiveness, and over 150 papers in French, Greek and English, which have been translated into Spanish, German and Portuguese. She received the Maurice Bouvet Award in 1992.

Series editor’s forward

Foreward

Introduction: primal masochism: the navel of psychoanalytic theory

1. The enigma of pain

2. The birth of desire

3. Tiredness: a masochism "in the feminine"

4. When masochism is lacking

5. Thinking: an act of the flesh

6. On the destruction of thought processes

7. Submission and thought

Annex: On primary erotogenic masochism, an imaginary dialogue with Benno Rosenberg

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The International Psychoanalytical Association Psychoanalytic Ideas and Applications Series
Übersetzer Andrew Weller
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
ISBN-10 1-032-05462-X / 103205462X
ISBN-13 978-1-032-05462-9 / 9781032054629
Zustand Neuware
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