Homecoming
- Philosophical and literary perspectives are combined with psychoanalytic ones in an attempt to provide a comprehensive conceptualization of the theme of homecoming. The concepts of home and homecoming are presented as symbolic representations of fundamental psychical functions, and their vicissitudes as subjective manifestations of basic psychic organizations. The hypothesis is put forward that the ability, or lack thereof, to work through the process of mourning of a lost object colors the evolution and outcome of any reckoning with such a notion and what it stands for. Literary sources are used to supplement and explicate psychoanalytic understandings regarding how the concept of homecoming is being made use of, within unconscious dynamics observed in a number of analytic cases.
Author: | Christo Joannidis |
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Parent Title (English): | International Forum of Psychoanalysis, Abingdon (Routledge - Taylor and Francis) Vol. 22 (No. 3, 2013), pp. 133-141. |
Document Type: | Articles |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
Release Date: | 2014/01/28 |
Format: | PDF-scan upon request / PDF-Scan auf Anfrage |
IdNo: | Joannidis_Ch_2013 |
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive: | Articles / Artikel |
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