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  • Civilization and discomfort: contemporary forms of psychopathology / Massimo Recalcati ... [Et al.], Edited by Domenico Cosenza, Massimo Recalcati
    Villa Angelo - Milano: Bruno Mondadori, [2006] - VIII, 259 p. , 21 cm. - Euro 11.00
  • More than sixty years after the publication of "Civilization and Its Discontents" by Freud, Western society has undergone profound transformations are reflected on the lives of individuals, bringing out new forms of mental illness that have expanded and made more complex the field of clinical psychology. By focusing on "new symptoms, psychosis, perversion, drug addiction, anorexia, obesity, panic attacks, the authors highlight a clinic that has more to do with the compulsive act, the disinhibition, the use object aimed at pure enjoyment, and face an uncomfortable result of the driving enjoyment that makes it more difficult for the constitution of the singularity.
  • In 1929 Sigmund Freud published Civilization and its Discontents, the work that gives rise to an acute reflection on civilization and its consequences with respect to human happiness or misery, trying to identify the underlying causes of the malaise of his time. Freud's thesis is clear: despite progress, the membership of a human community at a price: it requires the renunciation of the individual to their instinctual satisfactions. More than seventy years later, Western society has undergone profound changes that are reflected on the lives of individuals, bringing out new forms of mental illness that have expanded and made more complex the field of clinical psychology. By focusing on "new symptoms - psychosis, perversions, borderline personality, drug addiction, alcoholism, bulimia, anorexia, obesity, panic attacks - the authors go through the farthest frontiers of psychoanalytic work, highlighting a clinic that has more to do with the compulsive act, disinhibition, the use of ' object aimed at pure enjoyment, and confront an uneasiness that is no longer the product of the repressive nature of civilization and morality, but rather the result of a push to the enjoyment that makes it more difficult for the constitution of subjective singularity. Taken from here

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