Emotional Vertigo: Between Anxiety and Pleasure

Author(s) : Danielle Quinodoz

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Emotional Vertigo: Between Anxiety and Pleasure

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Publisher : Routledge
Published : January 1997
Cover : Paperback
Category :
Psychoanalysis
Catalogue No : 4193
ISBN 13 : 9780415148368
ISBN 10 : 0415148367

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Unravels the unconscious significance of the feelings of vertigo which sometimes arise in situations where there is no immediate danger of falling. The author traces the origins of these attacks to inner anxieties concerning separation, which are expressed somatically. 224pages.

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In this unique, prize-winning study Danielle Quinodoz unravels the unconscious significance of the feelings of vertigo which arise in situations where there is no immediate physical danger of falling and no organic cause. She traces the origins of such emotional vertigo to inner anxieties around separation which are expressed somatically at different levels according to the level of anxiety. Through a detailed case study of a patient who developed the symptoms of vertigo during analysis the author offers some thought-provoking insights into the vicissitudes of the object relationship and the importance of the role of the analyst in helping the patient translate sensation into representation. She also reflects on the links between anxiety and pleasure in the experience of vertigo, clearly exemplified in sports such as rock-climbing or skiing, and shows how vertigo is inexorably linked to questions of equilibrium at the psychic as well as the physical level. Emotional Vertigo is an excellent introduction to some of the central themes of current psychoanalytic thought.

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Danielle Quinodoz is a psychoanalyst in private practice in Geneva, and is a Member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society and of the International Psychoanalytical Association. She is the author of Emotional Vertigo: Between Anxiety and Pleasure.

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