Wrestling with Destiny The promise of psychoanalysis By: Lucy Holmes Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415813419, 0415813417 eText ISBN: 9781135627959, 1135627959 Edition: 1st Pages: 208 Copyright year: 2013 Format: EPUB Available from $ 18.78 USD SKU 9781135627959R90 Can psychoanalysis help people control their destinies? Using empirical evidence from neuroscience, Lucy Holmes makes a powerful argument that it can. This book considers the various ways in which destiny is linked to the repetition compulsion, and how free association in psychoanalysis can literally change the mind in ways that can help people reshape and take control of the future. Freud’s psychoanalysis is revealed here to be startlingly modern in its consonance with the latest findings in the study of the brain. The compulsion to repeat can propel human beings toward destinies they would never have consciously chosen. The tenacity of this Download ebook: https://ouo.io/gRxU590
