Writing Lived Experience – A Melancholy Elegy

This paper explores the limitations of language in psychotherapeutic writing about lived experience and how psychanalytic concepts can help us both understand and work through the inevitable loss that results from these limitations. It is illustrated by the author’s experience of undertaking a docto...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ying Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2020-05-01
Series:Language and Psychoanalysis
Online Access:http://www.language-and-psychoanalysis.com//article/view/4335