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This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range of embodied signs constituting the hysterical neuroses. Symptoms and signs, Freud noted in 1895, 'join in the conversation' by taking bodily form. The body and the mind form a nexus, which is the proper area of study for psychoanalysis. Because this is a vast field of inquiry, a pluralistic perspective is taken by this collection of papers, ranging from philosophic and semiotic understandings of the body, to Freudian, Lacanian, feminist, and object relations hypotheses. Clinical phsnomena such as self-mutilation, fantasy about the body and its representations and meanings, enactment, sexuality, and psychotic fragmentation are addressed in an attempt to extend our understanding of the psychoanalytic traditions that have evolved in relation to Freud's discoveries. This volume includes representative work from established psychoanalysts (Kalinich, Modell), psychoanalysts with sophisticated philosophical grounding (Frie, Simpson), and clinicians working with severely disturbed patients (Elmendorf, Plakun, Tillman, Fromm).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781461631231
Publisher: Aronson, Jason Inc.
Publication date: 05/10/2007
Series: Psychological Issues , #68
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 128
File size: 348 KB

About the Author

John P. Muller, PhD is director of training at the Austen Riggs Center. He is the author/editor of numerous articles on Lacan, semiotics, and psychoanalysis. Jane G. Tillman, PhD is a clinical team leader and psychotherapy supervisor at the Austen Riggs Center. She has published and presented papers on the treatment of psychotic disorders, the effects of suicide on clinicians, and religion and psychoanalysis.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Body in Psychoanalysis and the Origin of Fantasy
Chapter 3 That Subtle Knot: The Body and Metaphor
Chapter 4 The Concept of "Superego": Another Look (Up to Par or a Hole in One?)
Chapter 5 The Lived Body: From Freud to Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Psychoanalysis
Chapter 6 Identificatory Channels in Psychosis: Mimicry as Adhesion and Mockery as Differentiation
Chapter 7 Containment and the Use of Skin
Chapter 8 The Transition from Bodies to Words: A Clinical Illustration
Chapter 9 Perspectives on Embodiment: From Symptom to Enactment and from Enactment to Sexual Misconduct
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