Vital signs : nature, culture, psychoanalysis / Charles Shepherdson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepherdson, Charles.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis--France.

Psychoanalysis.

France.

Physical Description:

xv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2000.

Summary:

Vital Signs offers a radical new understanding of the role of psychoanalytic theory in contemporary French thought. Drawing on the work of Lacan, Kristeva, Foucault, and lesser-known thinkers Eugenie Lemoine-Luccioni and Catherine Millot, Shepherdson argues that we have misinterpreted the nature/culture distinction in relation to psychoanalysis. He shows that how the constitution of subject, and the phenomenon of the body, are irreducible to this distinction, and argues that the reception of French psychoanalysis has been wrongly governed by the debate between biological models and symbolic theories of social construction.

Contents:

1 Hysteria and the Question of Woman 17

2 Maternity and Femininity 55

3 The Role of Gender and the Imperative of Sex 85

4 From Oedipus Rex to Totem and Taboo: Lacan's Revision of the Paternal Metaphor 115

5 History and the Real: Foucault with Lacan 153

Afterword: Rediscovering Drive in Freud 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246) and index.

ISBN:

0415908795

0415908809

OCLC:

41273128