Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis - Couverture rigide

Webster, Jamieson

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0231184085 ISBN 13 : 9780231184083

Editeur : Columbia University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Conversion disorder--a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestations--offers a way to rethink the present. With so many people suffering from unexplained bodily symptoms; with so many seeking recourse to pharmacological treatments or bodily modification; with young men and women seemingly willing to direct violence toward anybody, including themselves--a radical disordering in culture insists on the level of the body.

Part memoir, part clinical case, part theoretical investigation, this book searches for the body. Is it a psychopathological entity; a crossroads for the cultural, political, and biological in the form of care; or the foundation of psychoanalytic work on the question of sexuality? Jamieson Webster traces conversion's shifting meanings--in religious, economic, and even chemical processes--revisiting the work of thinkers as diverse as Benjamin, Foucault, Agamben, and Lacan. She provides an intimate account of her own conversion from patient to psychoanalyst, as well as her continuing struggle to apprehend the complexities of the patient's body. When listening to dreams, symptoms, worries, or sexual impasses, the body becomes a defining trope that belies a vulnerable and urgent wish for transformation. Conversion Disorder names what is singular about the entanglement of the fractured body and the social world in order to imagine what kind of cure is possible.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jamieson Webster (PhD, Psychology, City University of New York) is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York; she is also a professor of psychology at Eugene Lang College, The New School; The Graduate Center, City University of New York; and the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research. She is the author of The Life and Death of Psychoanalysis (Karnac, 2011), The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan (forthcoming), and Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Pshychoanalysis (Columbia, 2018) and the coauthor (with Simon Critchley) of Stay, Illusion! The Hamlet Doctrine (Pantheon, 2013). She writes for Apology, Cabinet, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Huffington Post, Playboy, The New York Times, and a number of psychoanalytic and scholarly journals such as PsyCritiques, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, The American Psychoanalyst, American Journal of Psychoanalysis, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Constellations, and The Aesthete, and she is a founding member of Das Unbehagen, an organization that explores psychoanalysis outside of an institutional or organizational framework. Her academic work focuses on the intersections among psychoanalysis, continental philosophy, and autotheory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Columbia University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0231184085
• ISBN 13: 9780231184083
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible