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S/P/299. Viewed from a Lacanian perspective, is self-help literature like Carter-Scott's really helpful?

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2008
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The paper looks at the so-called self-help literature reviewing Freud's, Lacan's and Carter-Scott's ideas on the origin and development of the personality, the drivers of life, the perception of the image as the self, the search for pleasure, etc. evaluating their contribution to psychoanalysis and practical psychology.

 

KEYWORDS: Freud, Lacan, Carter-Scott, psychoanalysis, self, ego, id,