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The Borderline Culture

Intensity, Jouissance, and Death

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The Borderline Culture

Intensity, Jouissance, and Death

Description

In The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death, Željka Matijaševic argues that the psychological descriptor, “borderline,” should be extended to encompass the main facets of contemporary Western culture: splitting, affective dysregulation, intensity, and the polarization of good and bad objects.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Borderline in Psychoanalysis
Chapter 2: The Man-Machine between Jouissance and Death: Lacan's 'Omission' of the Borderline
Chapter 3: Borderline Intensities from the Counterculture to Late Capitalism
Chapter 4: Capitalist Production of the Perfect Borderline Subject
Chapter 5: Split Worlds, Split Minds

Product details

Published Apr 28 2021
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Extent 254
ISBN 9781978788343
Imprint Lexington Books
Series Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Author

Željka Matijaševic

Željka Matijaševic is full professor in the…

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