Destructiveness Intersubjectivity and Trauma

'At last we have a book that provides a comprehensive overview and assessment of the intersubjective turn in psychoanalysis showing its logical and clinical limitations and exploring its social and cultural determinants. Bohleber emphasizes the clinical importance of real traumatic experience along with the analysis of the transference as he reviews and broadens psychoanalytic theories of memory in relation to advances in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Psychoanalytic ideas on personality adolescence and identity are re-thought and updated. Bohleber brilliantly presents a unique understanding of malignant narcissism and prejudice in relation to European anti-Semitism and to contemporary religiously inspired terrorist violence.'- Cyril Levitt Dr Phil Professor and former Chair Department of Sociology McMaster University Hamilton Ontario. Psychoanalyst in private practice Toronto Ontario