Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis

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Complicating the happy cure: psychoanalysis and the ends of analysis

This chapter explores the relative sidelining of psychoanalysis in critical approaches to Happiness Studies thus far. It argues that this stems from an American strand of psychoanalysis known as ego-psychology which forms an unacknowledged element in the genealogy of Happiness Studies itself. Howeve...

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Main Author:	Wright, Colin
Format:	Book Section
Published:	Routledge 2017
Subjects:	Happiness Studies Psychoanalysis Lacan
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45482/

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