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What Is It About Having A Life- Which Is To Say, About Having A Sense Of Separate Existence As A Subject Or Self - That Is Usually Taken For Granted But Is So Fragilely Maintained In Certain Patients And, Indeed, In Most Of Us At Especially Difficult Times? In Having A Life: Self Pathology After Lacan, Lewis Kirshner Takes This Lacanian Question As The Point Of Departure For A Thoughtful Meditation On The Conceptual Problems And Clinical Manifestations Of Pathologies Of The Self. Beginning With The Case Of Margaret Little, Analyzed By D. W. Winnicott, And Proceeding To Ext Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Case Of Margaret Little; 2. The Psychoanalytic Subject; 3. The Cultural Construction Of Affect; 4. Trauma, Depression, And The Sense Of Existence; 5. The Objet Petit A; 6. The Man Who Didn't Exist: The Case Of Louis Althusser; References; Index Lewis A. Kirshner. Description Based Upon Print Version Of Record. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.