ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

part I|2 pages

Body formation in psychoanalysis

chapter 2|4 pages

Hysteria

The agonies of an epistemic crisis of the body

chapter 4|3 pages

From being a body to having a body

chapter 5|5 pages

The body-ego

chapter 6|6 pages

Bick, Anzieu and Piera Aulagnier

chapter 7|6 pages

The body and the death drive

chapter 8|8 pages

Françoise Dolto

The unconscious image and the function of language as a narcissistic bond

chapter 9|2 pages

Conclusions about body formation

part II|2 pages

Readdressing Oedipus