The ‘Separation Thesis’ of Self and Other: Metatheorizing a Dialectical Alternative

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 117-138

  Carr, Adrian N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

dialectic; Freud; Hegel; other; psychoanalysis; self

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037284729     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354303013001724     Document Type: Article

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