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In The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death, Željka Matijašević 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

The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance,

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      Publisher: Lexington Books
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 28/04/2021
      ISBN13: 9781793615596, 978-1793615596
      ISBN10: 1793615594

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death, Željka Matijašević 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

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