Writing Lived Experience – A Melancholy Elegy
This paper explores the limitations of language in psychotherapeutic writing about lived experience and how psychanalytic concepts can help us both understand and work through the inevitable loss that results from these limitations. It is illustrated by the author’s experience of undertaking a docto...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Edinburgh
2020-05-01
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Series: | Language and Psychoanalysis |
Online Access: | http://www.language-and-psychoanalysis.com//article/view/4335 |