The new wounded : from neurosis to brain damage / Catherine Malabou ; translated by Steven Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malabou, Catherine.

Contributor:

Miller, Steven.

Series:

Forms of living.

Forms of living

Standardized Title:

Nouveaux blessés. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy.

Traumatic psychoses.

Physical Description:

xix, 249 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book addresses the issue of trauma and psychic wounds to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology. In so doing, it reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather appears as its very locus. A philosophical approach of the Gnew woundedG (brain lesion patients) forms the matter of the confrontation.

Contents:

Cerebral auto-affection

Brain wounds: from the neurological novel to the theater of absence

Identity without precedent

Psychoanalytic objection: can there be destruction without a drive of destruction

What is a psychic event?

The "libido theory" and the otherness of the sexual to itself: traumatic neurosis and war neurosis in question

Separation, death, the thing, Freud, Lacan, and the missed encounter

Neurological objection: rehabilitating the event

The equivocity of reparation: from elasticity to resilience

Toward a plasticity of the compulsion to repeat

The subject of the accident.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8232-4651-5

OCLC:

830023764