{"product_id":"mourning-and-metabolization-9781032210797","title":"Mourning and Metabolization","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy bringing together perspectives from psychoanalysis and literary studies and considering the reciprocal relation between ideas about mourning and our internal worlds, this book provides a guide to thinking theoretically about loss and how we deal with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRael Meyerowitz conceptualizes the work of psychic internalization required by loss in terms of bodily digestion and metabolization. In this way, successful mourning can be likened to the proper processing of physical sustenance, while failed mourning is akin to indigestion, as expressed in various forms of melancholia, mania, depression, and anxiety. Borrowing from the methodology of literary criticism, the book conducts a detailed treatment of these themes by drawing on a series of psychoanalytic works, including those of Freud, Ferenczi, Karl Abraham, Klein, Loewald, Torok, Nicolas Abraham, and Green, while paying close critical attention to a selection of literary works such as those by William Faulkner, Wallace Stevens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'This is three books in one. Rael Meyerowitz surveys how key figures in psychoanalysis - Freud, Ferenczi, Klein, Loewald, Green and others - have thought about loss and mourning. He sets these in historical relation to each other, showing how each one's ideas built on what had gone before. And he discusses these texts as works of literature, drawing fascinating connections with poetry and fiction beyond the psychoanalytic field. All this in eight very readable chapters - an impressive achievement. Academically stimulating, deeply informed psychoanalytically, and warm and personal at the same time, this is a splendid book.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael Parsons\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBritish Psychoanalytical Society and French Psychoanalytic Association, author of \u003c\/em\u003eThe Dove that Returns\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003eThe Dove that Vanishes \u003cem\u003e(2000) and \u003c\/em\u003eLiving Psychoanalysis \u003cem\u003e(2014)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Rael Meyerowitz approaches central psychoanalytic concepts with a refreshingly open, thorough, and independent mind, a mind informed not only by close reading of classic and other texts but also by his earlier training in, and ongoing passion for, literature and literary criticism. This is a thought-provoking book, for students, practitioners, and others alike.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMike Brearley\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBritish Psychoanalytical Society, author of \u003c\/em\u003eThe Art of Captaincy \u003cem\u003e(1985) and \u003c\/em\u003eOn Form \u003cem\u003e(2017).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I have had the pleasure of working with Dr. Meyerowitz for several years, in the Fitzjohn's Unit of the Tavistock Clinic, trying to address the needs of patients with severe mental health problems, and I have always felt these patients to be in the best of hands. Now I can see that Rael's clinical sure-footedness is buttressed by impressively deep learning and imagination in the theory of psychoanalysis. I therefore recommend this book without hesitation to clinicians and theoreticians alike.' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancis Grier\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e, editor-in-chief, \u003c\/em\u003eInternational Journal of Psychoanalysis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Mourning and the internal world in psychoanalysis and literature 1. Sigmund Freud: Early explorations - mapping the territory of the mind 2. Sigmund Freud: Later models - identification, internal structure, and the ubiquity of loss 3. Sándor Ferenczi: Inventing introjection; Karl Abraham: Phenomenologist of depression 4. Melanie Klein: Positioning the object and rebuilding the internal world 5. Hans Loewald: Turning ghosts into ancestors - internalisation and emancipation 6. Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok: Rescuing introjection from the crypts of incorporation 7. André Green: Fading and framing - the metaphorical mother lost and restored Conclusion: Meaning, mourning, and mortality in Freud and Auden \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018902176087,"sku":"9781032210797","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781032210797.jpg?v=1750778588","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mourning-and-metabolization-9781032210797","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}