Narcissism, Melancholia and the Subject of Community

This book brings together the work of scholars and writer-practitioners of psychoanalysis to consider the legacy of two of Sigmund Freud''s most important metapsychological papers: ''On Narcissism: An Introduction'' (1914) and ''Mourning and Melancholia'' (1917 [1915]).  These twin papers, conceived in the context of unprecedented social and political turmoil, mark a point in Freud’s metapsycholog...