According to current thinking, anyone who fails to succeed must have something wrong with them. The pressure to achieve and be happy is taking a heavy toll, resulting in a warped view of the self, dis
'We live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared ...traditional authority is lapsing into brute force ...and we ourselves must take the first steps towards creating a ne
Shows us what it is about sex that both keeps us moving and inhibits us at the same time. This title presents an analysis of the contemporary relationship between man and woman. It demonstrates that t
In his acclaimed book about identity, What About Me?, Paul Verhaeghe made this trenchant diagnosis: “We live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared . . . traditional au
Freud’s discovery of the Oedipus complex has had a tumultuous fate in the field of psychology in the United States. At first considered the kernel of psychoanalysis, it progressively lost its luster
Winner of the 2005 Goethe Award in Psychoanalytic ScholarshipThe central argument of On Being Normal and Other Disorders is that psychic identity is acquired through one's primary intersubjective rela
