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Meaning and Melancholia

Hardcover • 2018 • 1. edition

Meaning and Melancholia

By Christopher Bollas

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About the book

Meaning and Melancholia: Life in the Age of Bewilderment sees Christopher Bollas apply his creative and innovative psychoanalytic thinking to various contemporary social, cultural and political themes.This book offers an incisive exploration of powerful trends within, and between, nations in the West over the past two hundred years. The author traces shifts in psychological forces and `frames of mind', that have resulted in a crucial `intellectual climate change'. He contends that recent decades...Show more

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ISBN

9781138497429

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

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Meaning and Melancholia

Format

Hardcover

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