Download or read book Thanatos, Shame, and Other Essays written by Pentti Ikonen and published by Phoenix Publishing House. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important work has become a classic in Finnish psychoanalytic thinking. It is one of the cornerstones in the training of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in our country. The authors' deep understanding has clarified Freud's final drive-instinct theory together with important additions that are a great help in integrating it with object relations theory