Death and Identity

Michel de M'Uzan is a neuropsychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He is a former director of the Institut de Psychanalyse of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society (SPP), a founding member of the Paris Institute of Psychosomatics (IPSO), and co-director of the collection 'Le Fil Rouge' at the Presses Universitaires de France. He has published several books on psychoanalysis, including 'De l'art a la mort', 'La Bouche de l'inconscient', and 'Aux confins de l'identite', as well as several fictional works. He is also the author of the 'Anthologie du delire' (Rocher, 1956).

• Series Editor's Preface -- Preface -- From Art to Death -- The same and the identical* (1969) -- Countertransference and the paradoxical system* (1976a) -- The work of dying* (1976b) -- The Mouth of the Unconscious -- The person of myself* (1983) -- Slaves of quantity* (1984) -- During the session: considerations on the analyst’s mental functioning* (1989) -- At the Frontiers of Identity -- The paraphrenic twin or at the frontiers of identity* (1999) -- Death never confesses* (1996) -- The uncanny or "I am not who you think I am"* (2009) -- Invitation to frequent the shadows* (2006) -- Back to Object-Relations -- Object-relations: between whom, between what; for whom, for what?* (2008) -- Reconsiderations and new developments in psychoanalysis* (2011)

'With the double, the paraphrenic twin, the spectrum of identities, the chimera, paradoxical thinking, the same and the identical, the economic scandal, the vital-identical programme, the work of dying, and other original contributions by de M'Uzan, you are entering the world of an analyst that harmoniously conjugates a refined description of the single analytic session with an encompassing view of the mind, or, more to the point, of the psyche-soma. Reading de M'Uzan offers a fresh outlook on clinical work and a refreshing perspective on the possibilities of psychoanalysis in various domains. Indeed, Michel de M'Uzan is a psychoanalyst who throughout his long career of more than fifty years has been able to build creatively on Freud's discoveries in many important domains: in psychoanalysis proper, of course, but also in psychosomatics, in his work with terminally ill patients, and in the field of artistic creation.'- Professor Dominique Scarfone, Professor at the Department of Psychology of the Universite de Montreal, and associate editor of the International Journal of Psychoanalysis