Becoming Alive

<p>What does it mean to be and feel alive and real?<br>How do we become and be alive together?<br>Human beings are uniquely concerned with the question and marvel of what it means to feel alive and real as well as the lifelong struggle of being alive together. <em>Becoming Alive</em> proffers a psychoanalytic theory of experiences of being alive acknowledging that analyst and patient indeed each of us are caught up in the larger drama and mystery of being alive. Focusing on the challenge in any psychoanalytic theory to demonstrate the relation between culture community and the individual LaMothe's theory provides a bridge between the three arguing that organizations of experiences of being alive are inextricably yoked to cultural stories rituals and practices. Enlivened by clinical illustrations and examples drawn from wider culture <em>Becoming Alive</em> brings together psychoanalytic developmental perspectives infant-parent research semiotics and philosophy in providing a comprehensive lucid and systematic description of subjective and intersubjective experiences of being alive.</p>