Cleft Tongue: The Language of Psychic Structures

Authors

  • Michal Ephratt University of Haifa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7565/landp.2015.011

Abstract

I willingly accepted the challenge of reviewing Cleft Tongue: The Language of Psychic Structures for Language & Psychoanalysis. The book was written by Dr. Dana Amir, a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, poet, literary scholar and lecturer at the University of Haifa (Israel).  

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Published

01-Dec-2015

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Book Reviews

How to Cite

Cleft Tongue: The Language of Psychic Structures. (2015). Language and Psychoanalysis, 4(2), 72-82. https://doi.org/10.7565/landp.2015.011