Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-188) and index.
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Vitality in human life and psychoanalysis -- Embodied vitality -- Living objects -- Vital subjects -- Enlivening stories -- Couch and culture : trauma and cultural constrictions of vitality and the psychoanalytic process.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Becoming Alive draws on the Winnicottian idea of transitional objects, and puts forward the argument that human beings relate to and use objects in order to generate experiences of 'being alive'.