Main description:

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.

Contents:

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Body Formation in Psychoanalysis 1. Preliminary Remarks on the Body in Psychoanalysis 2. Hysteria: The Agonies of an Epistemic Crisis of the Body 3. General Remarks on the Concept of the Body 4. From Being a Body to Having a Body 5. The Body-Ego 6. Bick, Anzieu and Piera Aulagnier 7. The Body and the Death Drive 8. Francoise 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 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