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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825680903321

Autore

Malabou Catherine

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8232-4651-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xix, 249 p

Collana

Forms of living

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerSteven

Disciplina

616.89/14

Soggetti

Psychotherapy

Traumatic psychoses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.