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Pink herrings : fantasy, object choice, and sexuation / Damien W. Riggs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riggs, Damien W., author.
- Series:
- Lines of the symbolic in psychoanalysis series
- Lines of the symbolic series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex (Psychology).
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
- Lacan, Jacques.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Sexuality--psychology.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Gender Identity.
- Psychosexual Development.
- Medical Subjects:
- Sexuality--psychology.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Gender Identity.
- Psychosexual Development.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 142 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Karnac, 2016.
- Summary:
- Pink Herrings engages in a re-examination of six of Freud's cases via Lacan's account of sexuation. Specifically, the book outlines a theoretical framework in which sexuation is understood as a 'choice' made in response to the fact of the sexual non-relationship. In making this choice, unconscious fantasy allows for the circulation of object a, which bear traces of jouissance. Drawing upon Lacan's distinction between phallic and other jouissance, Pink Herrings examines the four positions outlined in Lacan's formula of sexuation, and maps these onto the six case studies. In so doing, Pink Herrings not only brings new life and insights to the cases, but also clears a path to what is referred to as a 'clinic of sexuation'. Such a clinic would not replace existing Lacanian psychoanalytic practice (with its focus on the structures of neurosis, perversion and psychosis), but instead provide additional avenues through which to explore the operations of fantasy. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Lacan's formula of sexuation 1
- Chapter 2 The psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in a woman 21
- Chapter 3 From the history of an infantile neurosis 37
- Chapter 4 Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria 55
- Chapter 5 Analysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy 75
- Chapter 6 Notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis 91
- Chapter 7 Psycho-analytic notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia 105
- Chapter 8 A clinic of sexuation 119.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-138) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781782201748
- 1782201742
- OCLC:
- 932593544
- Publisher Number:
- 99970500999
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