Eros
Title:
Eros
Author:
Abel-Hirsch, Nicola.
ISBN:
9781840465624
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cambridge : Icon, 2001.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Series:
Ideas in psychoanalysis.
Contents:
Eros: 'A Principle of Attraction'; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; Sex and Love; 'Instincts' and 'Relations'; A Note on Thanatos; Eros in the Body: What is Sexuality?; Eros 'Form[s] Living Substance into ever Greater Unities'; Eros, Sexuality and 'Vital Difference': Two Children's Phantasies; Oedipus: Incestuous Desire and its Resolution; Anna O: The Avoidance of 'Vital Difference'; A Concluding Note on Sexuality; Eros in the Emotions: What is Love?; Idealised Love; A Complex and Generous Love; Eros as Putting Something (Back) Together; A Concluding Note on Love.
Abstract:
This title explores the concept of Eros through three main questions: What is sexuality? What is love? What is imagination? As the author explores the Eros concept - life instinct - developed by Freud which he considerd to be the drive to endure and procreate.
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