{"product_id":"the-couple-9781138645745","title":"The Couple","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Couple: A pluridisciplinary story\u003c\/em\u003e asks two questions and endeavours to answer them: What is the couple? And what story are we talking about? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eÉric Smadja presents his view of the couple as a composite, sexual-bodily, socio-cultural and psychic living reality in diverse and variable interrelationships, unfolding within a complex temporality. Ambivalently invested in by each partner, the couple is structurally and dynamically as conflictual as it is critical. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmadja sees the couple as situated at the intersection of several histories: socio-cultural; epistemological (the construction of this object of knowledge and of psychoanalytic treatment); natural (that of the cycle of conjugal life marked out by critical and mutative stages); and therapeutic (that of the suffering couple that will consult a specialist and undergo psychoanalytic therapy). \u003cem\u003eThe Couple: A pluridisciplinary story\u003c\/em\u003e follows the narrative division of these histories following a pluri- a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction. The Couple's Historical and Socio-Cultural Envelope. Some Historical Points of Reference, Or the Construction of an Object of Knowledge and of Psychoanalytic Treatment. About Some Psychic Components Present within the Couple. Sketching a ‘Natural’ History of a Couple. Couple Work. The Suffering Couple, Their Request for a Consultation and the Psychoanalytic Work. Conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577838047575,"sku":"9781138645745","price":40.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138645745.jpg?v=1746096884","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-couple-9781138645745","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}