The designed self : psychoanalysis and contemporary identities / Carlo Strenger.
"In The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities, Carlo Strenger explores the psychology of young adults for whom the weight of cultural, familial, and religious traditions has seemingly vanished. These young people have grown up in a cultural universe defined largely by their...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hillsdale, NJ :
Analytic Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Relational perspectives book series ;
v. 27. |
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| Summary: | "In The Designed Self: Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Identities, Carlo Strenger explores the psychology of young adults for whom the weight of cultural, familial, and religious traditions has seemingly vanished. These young people have grown up in a cultural universe defined largely by their contemporaries, and their maturational path is charted less by conflicts with authority than by the imperative to "design the self"." "The Designed Self chronicles Strenger's therapeutic encounters with five extraordinarily gifted young adults for whom the ideal of authenticity associated with the Baby-Boom generation was supplanted by the need to experiment endlessly with the self."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xxvii, 193 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-180) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0881634190 9780881634198 |