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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787183903321

Autore

Plastow Michael Gerard

Titolo

What is a child? : childhood, psychoanalysis, and discourse / / Michael Gerard Plastow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

0-429-92383-X

0-367-32970-0

0-429-90960-8

0-429-48483-6

1-78241-281-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

155.4

Soggetti

Child psychology

Child analysis

Children

Psychoanalysis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; APPRECIATION; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INTRODUCTION; PART I THE CHILD AND THE INFANTILE: HISTORY AND TIME; CHAPTER ONE The child: between history and structure; CHAPTER TWO A change of discourse: Freud's abandonment of the seduction hypothesis; CHAPTER THREE The fantasm: a transformational formula; PART II PSYCHOANALYSIS AS A CHILD AND ITS PROTAGONISTS; CHAPTER FOUR The illegitimate beginnings of the field of psychoanalysis of the child; CHAPTER FIVE The place of the parents: "the child does not come of his own accord"

CHAPTER SIX The leaking tap: the symptom of the childPART III DISCOURSES ON CHILDHOOD; CHAPTER SEVEN The ages of the child; CHAPTER EIGHT The upbringing of the child: between nature and culture; CHAPTER NINE Condillac's statue: from the sentiment of childhood to the sensuality of the child; CHAPTER TEN A new discourse: the child as sexual subject; PART IV THE CHILD AND THE SUBJECT; CHAPTER ELEVEN From the razing of the child to the advent of the



subject; EPILOGUE; REFERENCES; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Childhood is defined in different preconceived manners by different discourses. Thus the categories defined by age such as infant, child, adolescent and so on, are to some extent arbitrary divisions that are subject to the evolution in clinical, societal, ideological and political discourses. Within psychoanalysis there has been a conflation of childhood construed through the retrospective memories of adults, and childhood as seen through the perspective of infant observations. In What is a Child? Michael Gerard Plastow argues that the place of the child as subject in the fullest sense has bee