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A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive

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A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive - LeClaire, Serge, and Hays, Marie-Claude (Translated by)
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The powerful thesis of this book is that in order to achieve full selfhood we must all repeatedly and endlessly kill the phantasmatic image of ourselves instilled in us by our parents--the projection of the child our parents wanted.

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A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive 1998, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA

ISBN-13: 9780804731416

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A Child Is Being Killed: On Primary Narcissism and the Death Drive 1998, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA

ISBN-13: 9780804731409

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