Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sheils, Barry (Editor), Walsh, Julie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Studies in the Psychosocial
• Subjects: Psychology.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Literature > Philosophy.; Social sciences > Philosophy.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Psychosocial Studies.; Cultural Theory.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Literary Theory.; Social Theory.

This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud's most important metapsychological papers: 'On Narcissism: An Introduction' (1914) and 'Mourning and Melancholia' (1917 [1915]).  These tw...