The Importance of Disappointment

by Ian Craib

Overview

This sane and insightful discussion explores the nature of identity in late modern societies to criticize the way in which psychotherapy has become an ideology of late modernity and to emphasize the importance of ‘negative' messages in psychoanalytic theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415093835
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/22/1994
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ian Craib is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex and a psychoanalytic group psychotherapist.

Table of Contents

1. Cutting Out Gingerbread People 2. The Organisation of Mourning 3. Psychoanalysis as the Theory of Disappointment 4. Looking on the Bright Side 5. The Organisation of Social Life 6. The Fragmentation of Everyday Life 7. The Powerful Self and Its Illusions 8. The Disappointments of Identity: What Sort of Man 9. The False Self of Late Modernity 10. The Disappointed Self 11. The Values of Psychoanalysis