Love and Hate: Existentialism and Psychoanalysis – A Personal Perspective
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https://doi.org/10.65828/h8p95470Keywords:
existentialism, psychoanalysis, duality, uncertainty, phenomenology, trauma, postpsychiatry, childhood.Abstract
In this presentation I will be attempting to expresses some views and a few ideas on dualism, drawing from personal experience and practice. Much of the existential-phenomenological literature critiques classical psychoanalysis. However there is a strong emerging school in contemporary psychoanalysis that arguably challenges the traditional duality and offers significant points of convergence.
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