Does anyone have any recommendations for books about modern psychoanalysis?? I'm looking for information on life and death instinct.

I thought psychoanalysis (particularly Freudian) was considered pseudoscience and is no longer studied in modern times except as a historical curiosity?

Have you tried googling ?

I really have no clue what life and death psychoanalysis instinct is but when i googled some of the key words a lot of relevant book titles came up including the ones below

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I thought psychoanalysis (particularly Freudian) was considered pseudoscience and is no longer studied in modern times except as a historical curiosity?

Popper did indeed consider psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience, but it's not all trash.

Have you tried googling ?

I really have no clue what life and death psychoanalysis instinct is but when i googled some of the key words a lot of relevant book titles came up including the ones below

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I took a look at Amazon and Indigo, but there's so many to choose from and I can't afford them all.

One example of life and death instinct would be Darth Vader at the end of Return of the Jedi: Vader kills the Emperor and himself (death drive) and at the same time saves Luke's life (life drive).

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I thought psychoanalysis (particularly Freudian) was considered pseudoscience and is no longer studied in modern times except as a historical curiosity?

That's more or less right. There isn't really such a thing as modern psychoanalysis in western culture, at least. Psychoanalysis and other theories about how we find meaning in the world became very unpopular in... the late 80s probably? When postmodernism, with its ideas that are somewhere between anti-meaning and arbitrary-meaning became very popular instead. That didn't necessarily happen in other cultures. But the closest things we have to a modern descendant of paychoanalysis in western culture would probably be Personal Mythology and Evolutionary psychology. The evolutionary psychology of depression would be the modern equivalent of psychoanalysis of the death instinct (also called thanatos).

I did buy the book Modern Psychoanalysis of the Schizophrenic Patient... published in 2004.

The latest paper is up at http://vixra.org/abs/1605.0238

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