Main description:

Introduces original and radical ideas which amount to a revision of some important aspects of psychoanalytic metapsychology, and extensions of several others. Considers concepts including the void, exile and nothingness and considers how development of these ideas can impact many of the "extreme" problems and phenomena with which psychoanalysis struggles. Interdisciplinary study which includes discussion of poetry, philosophy and language.

Contents:

Introduction 1. Within Without: On Exile and Cosmogeny 2. Notes on Play 3. The End of Grief 4. On God and Gods I: Truth and Being 5. On God and Gods II: Spinoza, Author of the Ethics 6. Blahblahcan avico Vico 7. Ring/ring 8. From Beyond the Real