Resurrection

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The author, Maria José Martins de Azevedo, offers us in this book – Resurrection: The Place of The Future and The Hopeful Function of The Object several life stories/tales of psychoanalytic healing. But what is remarkable about this work of observation and research is its rigorous and discriminating way of listening […]. The brilliance of her animating capacity reaches its peak in the case “from burial to resurrection […]”. This is everything that matters to say about knowledge, knowing how, playing, and dreaming-creating. But it’s also all that’s demanded of an authentic psychoanalysis – Maria José de Azevedo demonstrates it: observation, investigation, and diacritical analysis of pathogenic and traumatic childhood experiences, narcissistic restoration, empowerment of the analysis, and the construction of a new narrative. […] From healing through words, we move to healing through care, and from there to healing through creative relationship. And there lies the evolution of theory and practice in the author’s psychoanalytic journey, which the texts of this book document – a successful revolution. […]” . It presents two new concepts: the place of the future and the hopeful function of the object.