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Identity Crisis: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self (Communications & Culture) by Stephen Frosh (auth.) is a psychology available to read on EtoBox.
What is Identity Crisis: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self (Communications & Culture) about?
This book examines the psychological responses of people to the excitements and terrors that characterise the modern world. Beginning with a description of modernist and post-modernist accounts of contemporary life, it then moves into detailed discussions of narcissism and psychosis - two states of mind that seem to characterise the 'crises of self' to which the modern world gives rise. With an interweaving of social theory and psychodynamic explanations, this is a sophisticated and compelling text. Identity Crisis will be of interest to students in a wide range of disciplines including psychology, sociology, psychoanalysis, politics and cultural studies.
Who reads Identity Crisis: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self (Communications & Culture)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen Frosh (auth.)
- Publisher
- Macmillan Education UK
- Published
- 1991
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415904469
- Category
- psychology
- Subjects
- Medical, Psychology, Medicine
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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