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A Question of Time: Freud in the Light of Heidegger’s Temporality: 19
Author(s): Joel Pearl (Author)
- Publisher: Editions Rodopi B.V.
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 236 pages
- ISBN-10: 9042036427
- ISBN-13: 9789042036420
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“Joel Pearl’s A Question of Time – Freud in the Light of Heidegger’s Temporality is a brilliant, original book, which guides the reader through Heidegger’s profound analysis and philosophical thinking toward a novel formulation of key concepts in psychoanalysis and toward significant conclusions, pertinent to clinical practice. It implies nothing less than a new definition of psychic health – the self’s ability to be open to its possibilities in time. The unique manner in which the self is open to its possibilities in time constitutes part of the person’s agency. One can regard the ability to return to past events as needed throughout the course of life, providing meaning for present self-possibilities, as well as the ability to move toward the future, as the cornerstone of mental health.” – in: Sihot: the Israeli Journal for Psychoanalysis, Dec 2012
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