The Pale Criminal: Psychoanalytic Perspectives eBook

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It was Freud, borrowing Nietszche’s phrase from Thus Spake Zarathustra, who described as ‘pale criminals’ those who committed criminal acts out of deep-lying (unconscious) guilt. The focus of this challenging and penetrating study is on this type of criminality. The book bring sa ‘unifying vision and theoretical integration’ to the array of perspectives and theories in this field. He draws together for the first time the thoughts on the subject of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott and Jacques Lacan, examines the contributions of both orthodox and evolutionary psychiatry, and explores the role of family experience in shaping the ‘pale criminal’. The result is an ambitious theory of criminality; a depth-psychological psychoanalytic model of the human being.In the early chapters, the aurthor provides a judicious and even-handed exposition of his chosen thinkers’ views, before proceeding to an impressive and well-argued dialectical synthesis in which each theoretical perspective is used to correct, qualify or supplement the others. In a diffuse and divided field, this volume should provide an indispensable source of clarification and a stimulus to open creative debate.

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9781855752955, 9780429482649

The Pale Criminal: Psychoanalytic Perspectives 1st Edition is written by Stephen J. Costello and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Pale Criminal are 9780429907418, 0429907419 and the print ISBNs are 9780367326029, 0367326027. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781855752955, 9780429482649.