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Vertigo: The Temptation of Identity, 2022 Fordham University Press
Abstract
Everyone knows what acrophobia is, and many suffer from it. Before Freud, the so-called “sciences of the mind” reserved a place of honor for vertigo in the domain of mental pathologies, attributing to it that destabilizing and intoxicating element—both attractive and repulsive—without which consciousness itself was inconceivable. Some went so fa…
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