ABSTRACT
1Psychoanalysis, the Body and the Oedipal Plot is a new departure in psychoanalytic exposition. It begins with an attempt to convey in language accessible to people from different disciplines, some of the most difficult processes that conform our subjectivity and our concept of difference and alterity. This book proposes a reformulation of how we think of the body, bodily formation, the image of the body and its relation to emplotments and alterity. I also dismantle the Oedipal Complex as a central concept of psychoanalytic theory by critically thinking of the Oedipal Scenario as an epochal emplotment of the body that reproduces patriarchy. In this text, the body and the Oedipal are not only thought of within the psychoanalytic domain but also they are also restated to bring an ethical formulation of non-violence to our current cultural domain.
