Envy
UK £3.99,Canada $6.95,USA $7.95,
UK Publication April 1998
ISBN 9781840463538
Paperback
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Branded as one of the seven deadly sins and the reason in Christian mythology for Satan's fall from grace, envy is endemic in modern life. Although recognised as a pivotal state of mind centuries before psychoanalysis, in contemporary times it has been fostered relentlessly through advertising and the media. No wonder then, that in the new millennium it has reached crisis proportions.
Many psychoanalysts have charted this terrain: Freud's infamous and misunderstood concept of 'penis envy' still arouses controversy, and Klein's concept of envy as an innate disposition is equally alarming. Less harmful forms can act as an incentive to emulate the attributes we admire in others, building regard and generosity. But this ordinary manifestation may also mask more damaging, unconscious currents that poison appreciation, sour experience and undermine the creative self. As Kate Barrows explains, envy is one of the most destructive emotions and one of the most intractable problems of psychotherapy.
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Kate Barrows is a Member of the British Psychoanalytical Society and of the Association of Child Psychotherapists. She works in private practice in Bristol and writes and lectures on a wide variety of psychoanalytic topics.
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