Cleft Tongue: The Language of Psychic Structures

  • Michal Ephratt University of Haifa

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
How to Cite
Ephratt, M. (2015). Cleft Tongue: The Language of Psychic Structures. Language and Psychoanalysis, 4(2), 72-82. https://doi.org/10.7565/landp.2015.011
Section
Book Reviews