Longing for nothingness : resistance, denial, and the place of death in the nursing home / Andrew Stein.
"In Longing for Nothingness: Resistance, Denial, and the Place of Death in the Nursing Home, Andrew Stein offers a groundbreaking new psychoanalytic treatment of the depression and other mental conflicts suffered by residents living in nursing homes. Freud famously argued that humans had a dual...
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Lanham, Md. :
Jason Aronson,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- The destructive side of our erotic life
- What is a death wish in early Freud?
- Freud's later views concerning death as a drive
- Death and the other
- Death and the chain of life
- Introduction to death in the nursing home
- Life for the resident in the nursing home
- Residents' narcissistic frames of mind
- The negation of death in the nursing home
- Coda and exit.