Freud and the Scene of Trauma / John Fletcher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, John, 1948 January 2- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Medicine in art.

Medicine in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book argues that Freud’s mapping of trauma as a scene is central to both his clinical interpretation of his patients’ symptoms and his construction of successive theoretical models and concepts to explain the power of such scenes in his patients’ lives. This attention to the scenic form of trauma and its power in determining symptoms leads to Freud’s break from the neurological model of trauma he inherited from Charcot. It also helps to explain the affinity that Freud and many since him have felt between psychoanalysis and literature (and artistic production more generally), and the privileged role of literature at certain turning points in the development of his thought. It is Freud’s scenography of trauma and fantasy that speaks to the student of literature and painting.Overall, the book develops the thesis of Jean Laplanche that in Freud’s shift from a traumatic to a developmental model, along with the undoubted gains embodied in the theory of infantile sexuality, there were crucial losses: specifically, the recognition of the role of the adult other and the traumatic encounter with adult sexuality that is entailed in the ordinary nurture and formation of the infantile subject.

Contents:

Charcot's hysteria : trauma and the hysterical attack

Freud's hysteria : "scenes of passionate movement"

The afterwardsness of trauma and the theory of seduction

Memory and the key of fantasy

The scenography of trauma : Oedipus as tragedy and complex

Leonardo's screen memory

Flying and painting : Leonardo's rival sublimations

The transference and its prototypes

The wolf man I : constructing the primal scene

The wolf man II : interpreting the primal scene

Trauma and the genealogy of the death drive

Uncanny repetitions : Freud, Hoffmann, and the death-work.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780823254620

0823254623

9780823260973

0823260976

9780823254637

0823254631

OCLC:

859159682