A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive
(Part of the Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Series)
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The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents. We must all combat what the author calls "primary narcissism," a projection of the child our parents wanted. This idea--that each of us carries as a burden an unconscious secret of our parents, a hidden desire that we are made to live out but that we must kill in...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0804731411
ISBN13:9780804731416
Release Date:March 1998
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:92 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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