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How Can We Understand The Pull Towards That Which We Fear: Psychosis? In This Thought Provoking Book, Abensour Proposes The Idea Of A Temptation Towards Psychosis Rather Than A Regression, As A Response To The Hatred Or Denial Of The Subject's Origins. She Shares Her Reflections On Her Psychoanalytic Work With Psychotic Patients Focusing On Their Struggle To Achieve A Coherent Sense Of A Self That Can Inhabit A Shared World. Abensour Locates This Struggle Within The Universal Human Struggle To Achieve A Balance Between What We Can And Cannot Allow Ourselves To Know About The Reality Of Death And Of Our Insignificance In The World-- Provided By Publisher.