Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Plot: A Critical Re-Imaging of the Body in Psychoanalysis

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Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Plot is a new radical departure in psychoanalytic exposition. An attempt is made to convey, in a language accessible for people from different disciplines, some of the most difficult processes that conform our subjectivity and our concept of difference and alterity. Containing both significant theoretical material and applications of the theory to clinical psychoanalytic practice, this book offers the latest thinking on the importance of the body in psychoanalytic theory. Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Plot will be of interest to psychoanalysts, philosophers, and cultural theorists. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: Body formation in psychoanalysis 1. Preliminary remarks on the body in psychoanalysis Notes 2. Hysteria: the agonies of an epistemic crisis of the body Note 3. General remarks on the concept of the body Note 4. From being a body to having a body Note 5. The body-ego Notes 6. Bick, Anzieu and Piera Aulagnier 7. The body and the death drive 8. Françoise Dolto: the unconscious image and the function of language as a narcissistic bond 9. Conclusions about body formation PART II: Readdressing Oedipus 10. The Oedipal Complex and the Oedipal myth The Oedipal myth, the complex and its disciplinary normalization Genealogy of Freud’s interest in the Oedipal and its posterior theoretical influence Oedipus: a mythical representation of an unconscious plot On dismantling the Oedipal sign Freeing Oedipus from repetition compulsion 11. Rethinking sexual difference and the Oedipal Complex 12. The broken house of Labdacus, the bodies of strangers and the place of death 13. Clinical practice and social phenomena Conclusions Bibliography Index