The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd: Existentialism and Phenomenology in Contemporary Psychoanalysis

The Psychoanalysis of the Absurd offers an interdisciplinary study of Existentialism and Phenomenology and their importance to the clinical work of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. The concept of Absurdity, developed by Camus, has never been applied to the therapeutic situation or directly contrasted with its antithesis; the search for personal meaning.

The book begins with narrative accounts of the historical development of Psychoanalysis, Existentialism and Phenomenology in 2...