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).

'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

• 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)