Between skins : the body in psychoanalysis--contemporary developments / / Nicola Diamond

• Autore: Diamond Nicola
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 155.2; 616.8917
• Soggetto topico: Body image; Human body; Somesthesia; Body schema - Psychological aspects; Mind and body; Psychoanalysis
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Between Skins: The Body in Psychoanalysis - Contemporary Developments; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Why Between Skins?; This Book Sets Out To . . .; Links with Psychoanalysis and Why Psychoanalysis?; Towards Sociality; Embodied Cultural Differences; Relating to the Clinical Field; The Structure of the Book; Note; Part I The Framework: Neuroscience and Interdisciplinary Connections; 1 Introducing Interdisciplinary Connections; Interdisciplinary Connections; Philosophical Concerns in This Enquiry; The Irreducible Organic Component and How It Figures for Us ; Neuroscience: One of the Important Bed-MatesChallenging a Top-Down Approach; The Brain-Body Map; Psychoanalysis: The Brain-Body Map and Body Image; Body Image versus Body Schema; Why I Do Not Adopt Gallagher and Cole's Terminology; Working Towards a Brain-Body Mapping; Avoiding Mentalist Reduction; Moving Towards a Brain-Body-Ego Relational Perspective: An Imaginary Lived Geography; And Finally; Note; 2 Nurture/Nature; The Complex Interdependence of Organism and Environment; Attachment, Developmental Psychology and Intercorporeality ; Intercorporeality: The Philosophical Contribution, Developmental Psychology, Mirror NeuronsBiology and Sexuality: Regulation and Deregulation of Biorelational Processes; Notes; 3 Bodily Expression and Language Relations; Affective Bodily Relations; Bodily Proto-Conversation: Sensory Semiotics as the Basis for Language; Bodily Expression as a Form of Language; Absence, the Symbol and the Somatic; In the Beginning Was the Body: Lakoff and Johnson; Somatic Access to the Symbol; The 'Maternal' and the 'Other'; Notes; 4 Setting the Scene: The Problem of the Binary Divide ; Inside versus Outside in Early KleinThe Context of the Freud-Klein Controversies, 1941-1945; Persistent Dualism in Developments of Bion and Psychosomatics; An 'Over-Mental' View in Anglo-American Psychoanalysis; Body versus Speech in Lacan; Note; Part II The Vital Order: Moving Away from Interiority and Biology as Bedrock; 5 The Vital Order and the Biological Functions: Going Back to the Fundamental Problem; Biology versus Sexuality: An Untenable Division?; Introduction to Jean Laplanche; Setting Up the Solution Finds the Problem ; Excess: The Marginal Effect as an Increase in Excitation Relating to Emergent SexualityBetween Skins: The Alien Entity and the Flesh; To Sum Up; 6 The Problem of Dualism and the Division between the Vital and the Psychic Order; 7 The Vital Revisited: Deconstructing the Vital Order from Within; The Reversal and Implications: The Vital is Not the Prop but Now Requires Propping; Reframing the Vital Order: The Lack of Preordained Limit and Excess; The Other, Temporal Delay and Somatic Lack; The Vital Bodily Processes Open onto Memory; Identity as Difference: The Vital Order as Vital Field; Notes ; 8 Rebuilding the Vital Field
• Sommario/riassunto: Between Skins challenges individualistic accounts of the body in psychoanalysis. Drawing on philosophy, contemporary neurobiology and developmental research, Nicola Diamond explores the ways in which bodily processes and skin experience are inseparable from the field of language and environmental context. The first book to address epistemological implications for a new understanding of the body and embodiment - offers a new perspective on the division between mind, body and worldBrings together a philosophical phenomenological account of body exp
• Titolo autorizzato: Between skins
• ISBN: 0-470-77816-4; 1-118-32110-3; 1-299-44884-4; 1-118-32096-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910139042503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II