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

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.

• | Author: Serge Leclaire, Marie-Claude Hays
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 1998
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780804731416
• | ISBN-10: 0804731411