Lost in Cognition: Psychoanalysis and Neurosciences

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laurent, Éric.

Contributor:

Price, A. R., translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Neurosciences.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Karnac, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines the pretensions of the new paradigm in psychology that has put itself forward as the model for the future of the clinical disciplines, thereby seeking to put paid to psychoanalysis. What is this paradigm shift? It goes by the name of cognitive-behaviourism. Where does it come from? From the United States. Until the nineteen-sixties, behavioural psychology had enjoyed a certain prestige in the US. It was later disqualified by the objections from the linguist Noam Chomsky who held that no learning procedure could ever account for linguistic ability. This ability was surely innate, Chomsky argued, and so he set about hunting out the organ of language. Behaviour had to be complemented by a machine for taking cognisance, a machine that was innate and which conformed to the post-Chomskyan model. It took the discipline some thirty years to deck itself out in new clothes. The advances in biology, in neurology, and in the nebula that resulted from them under the 'neuroscience' label, oversaw this change.

Contents:

part 1 How is The Subject Inscribed? / Éric Laurent

chapter 1 Chomsky with Joyce / Éric Laurent

chapter 2 Neural plasticity and the impossible inscription of the subject / Éric Laurent

part 2 Impossible Evaluation / Éric Laurent

chapter 3 Collective expert-assessment and compared clinical trials: a machine run amok / Éric Laurent

chapter 4 The psychopathy of evaluation / Éric Laurent

part 3 Psychoanalysis and Cognition / Éric Laurent

chapter 5 On the origin of the Other and the post-traumatic object / Éric Laurent

chapter 6 The cul-de-sac of cognitive psychoanalysis / Éric Laurent

chapter 7 Cognition and transference in psychoanalysis today / Éric Laurent

chapter 8 The new pathways of loss in the DSM-5 impasse / Éric Laurent.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 26, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-90163-1

0-367-10245-5

0-429-47686-8

1-78241-223-9

9780429476860

OCLC:

891399131