{"product_id":"repetition-and-trauma-max-m-stern-9780881630732","title":"Repetition and Trauma: Toward A Teleonomic Theory of Psychoanalysis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe culmination of over three decades of investigation into traumatic processes, \u003cem\u003eRepetition and Trauma\u003c\/em\u003e is the late Max Stern's pioneering reconceptualization of trauma in the light of recent insights into the physiology and psychology of stress and the \"teleonomic\" character of human evolution in developing defenses against shock. As such, it is a highly original attempt to reformulate certain basic tenets of psychoanalysis with the findings of modern biology in general and neurobiology in particular.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the core of Stern's effort is the integration of laboratory research into sleep and dreaming so as to clarify the meaning of pavor nocturnus. In concluding that these night terrors represent \"a defense against stress caused by threatening nightmares,\" he exploits, though he interpretively departs from, the laboratory research on dreams conducted by Charles Fisher and others in the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom his understanding of pavor nocturnus as a compulsion to repeat in the service of overcoming a developmental failure to attribute meaning to states of tension, Stern enlarges his inquiry to the phenomena of repetitive dreams in general. In a brilliant reconstruction of Freud's \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Pleasure Principle\u003c\/em\u003e, he suggests that Freud was correct in attributing the repetitive phenomena of traumatic dreams to forces operating beyond the pleasure principle, but holds that these phenomena can be best illumined in terms of Freud's conception of mastery and Stern's own notion of \"reparative mastery.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Max M. Stern, Liselotte Bendix Stern\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 088163073X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780881630732\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.42h x 6.60w x 0.72d","brand":"Max M. Stern","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45064514437375,"sku":"9780881630732","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c5be4874-8358-46c8-a2bf-3e2c20590e46.jpg?v=1712124495","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/repetition-and-trauma-max-m-stern-9780881630732","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}