Doctor-Assisted Suicide: Psychoanalysis of Mass Anxiety

At bottom, the controversy surrounding Dr Jack Kevorkian's advocacy and performance of such suicides involves a struggle over how to respond to the Other's deficiency. His program offers opposing fantasies to his supporters and his opponents concerning the individual subject's positio...

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Applied psychoanalysis. Miscellaneous
Assisted suicide
Biological and medical sciences
Death
Discourse Analysis
Doctors
Euthanasia
Fantasy
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Internal-External Control
Jack Kevorkian
Lacan, Jacques Marie Emile
Mass Behavior
Problem solving
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Interpretation
Psychoanalytic Theory
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Right to Die
Social Alienation
Social problems
Subjectivity
Suicide
Suicide, Assisted - psychology
Tissue Donors - psychology
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