The Body in Psychoanalysis: Contemporary Developments (paperback) The Body in Psychoanalysis - Contemporary Developments
Auteur : Diamond Nicola
Drawing on philosophy, contemporary neurobiology, developmental research and a critical review of psychoanalytical literature, Nicola Diamond explores the ways in which bodily processes and skin experience are inseparable from the environmental context. She deals with the current impasses in the debates, the reduction to biological description in the neurosciences, the dualistic tendency to mentalist reductionism in psychoanalysis, and a need to account for the relation between biology and complex social processes. She opens up an understanding of language and the crucial role it plays in bodily development. Her response is to propose a rigorously re-worked &lsquo,relational body' as a way out of the impasses historically present in psychoanalysis.
In exploring the way the body has been viewed within psychoanalysis, Diamond makes reference to Freudian, Anglo-American and French thought. The book moves towards contemporary developments and makes explicit how recent research emerging out of developmental psychology and neuroscience challenges traditional psychoanalytical understandings of the body, with references throughout to clinical examples and everyday experiences.
Part I The Framework: Neuroscience and Interdisciplinary Connections 11
1 Introducing Interdisciplinary Connections 13
2 Nurture/Nature 29
3 Bodily Expression and Language Relations 38
4 Setting the Scene: The Problem of the Binary Divide 51
Part II The Vital Order: Moving Away from Interiority and Biology as Bedrock 59
5 The Vital Order and the Biological Functions: Going Back to the Fundamental Problem 61
6 The Problem of Dualism and the Division between the Vital and the Psychic Order 74
7 The Vital Revisited: Deconstructing the Vital Order from Within 77
8 Rebuilding the Vital Field 90
9 Body Memory and Know-How 101
10 Attachment and Sexuality: Regulation versus Deregulation 109
Part III Exteriority: The Body Surface 119
11 The Skin: An Introduction 121
12 Didier Anzieu and The Skin Ego 137
13 Permeable Skin 147
14 The Emergence of Skin as a Support Matrix 154
15 Skin Narratives 162
16 Skin Relation 173
17 Skin Writing and Touch as Analogous to Language 179
18 Psychosomatics and Conversion: The Question of the Symbol 189
Conclusion: Have We Reached a Destination? 208
References and Further Reading 217
Index 226
Date de parution : 05-2013
Ouvrage de 288 p.
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embodiment, touch, psychoanalytical, neurobiology, epistemology