Making Death Thinkable
"Man's perception of the finite nature of life is always present, resulting in anxieties of varying intensity, depending on the person's character and on the phases of life he or she is going through. De Masi is aware of the philosophical, sociological, religious or mystical approaches to the problem of death, however he chooses to focus on, and remain within, the theoretical frame of reference of psychoanalysis. He explores how different psychoanalytic theories have addressed the issue of...
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Subtitling his work A Psychoanalytic Contribution to the Problem of the Transience of Life, Italian psychoanalyst De Masi addresses the nature of death anxiety, and makes the fundamental link between it and a failure to mourn properly. No information is provided about an Italian edition. Only names are indexed. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Foreward to English edition11Foreward131On transience312The denial of time and the myth of immortality343Panic attack or imaginary death404Psychic strategies towards self-annihilation495Fear or serenity?656Potential self and absence of future707A higher level of consciousness768Ivan I'Lic's death819The mid-life crisis8610Psychoanalysis in old age9711Death and psychosis10412An unthinkable event11013Death : what reparation?11914The denial of death12915The problem of mourning13316The death instinct13617Melanie Klein and innate destructiveness146
