Download or read book The Borderline Culture written by Željka Matijaševic and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Borderline Culture: Intensity, Jouissance, and Death, Željka Matijašević argues that the psychological descriptor, “borderline,” should be extended to encompass the main facets of contemporary Western culture: splitting, affective dysregulation, intensity, and the polarization of good and bad objects.