Primo Levi's loneliness: Psychoanalytic perspectives on suicide-nearness

Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 835-858

  Titelman, David ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRIME; DEPRESSION; HUMAN; JEW; LITERATURE; LONELINESS; LOVE; NARCISSISM; PSYCHOANALYSIS; REVIEW; SELF ESTEEM; SUICIDE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 33746710350     PISSN: 00332828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2167-4086.2006.tb00059.x     Document Type: Review

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