What Can Institutes Do-: Commentary on Paper by Randall Lehmann Sorenson
- Our mortality – the fact that we will die and that we know it – defines the human condition, although this knowledge is often defensively maintained psychically as a theoretical, intellectual proposition. This paper explores one route by which such knowledge is transformed into felt experience: I suggest that how we mourn – what occurs psychically as we live the pain of loss – strongly influences our relationship to our own deaths. Because the psychic labor involved in making mortality real has compelling individual and social consequences, I position the role of the psychoanalyst as well as intersubjective aspects of the psychoanalytic process as central to helping patients grapple with their own mortality.
Author: | Martin Stephen Frommer |
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Parent Title (English): | Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Vol. 15 (2005), pp. 479-498. |
Document Type: | Articles |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2005 |
Release Date: | 2017/11/20 |
Format: | xerox upon request / Fotokopie auf Anfrage |
IdNo: | Frommer_M_S_2005a |
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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