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The New Wounded - Catherine Malabou

English
2012-05-01
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This book employs a philosophical approach to the โ€œnew woundedโ€ (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology, focused on the issue of trauma and psychic wounds. It thereby reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather at its center.The โ€œnew woundedโ€ suffer from psychic wounds that traditional psychoanalysis, with ... Full description

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This book employs a philosophical approach to the โ€œnew woundedโ€ (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology, focused on the issue of trauma and psychic wounds. It thereby reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather at its center.The โ€œnew woundedโ€ suffer from psychic wounds that traditional psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on the psycheโ€™s need to integrate events into its own history, cannot understand or cure. They are victims of various cerebral lesions or attacks, including degenerative brain diseases such as Parkinsonโ€™s and Alzheimerโ€™s.Changes caused by cerebral lesions frequently manifest themselves as an unprecedented metamorphosis in the patientโ€™s identity. A person with Alzheimerโ€™s disease, for example, is notโ€•or not onlyโ€•someone who has โ€œchangedโ€ or been โ€œmodifiedโ€ but rather a subject who has become someone else.The behavior of subjects who are victims of โ€œsociopolitical traumas,โ€ such as abuse, war, terrorist attacks, or sexual assaults, displays striking resemblances to that of subjects who have suffered brain damage. Thus today the border separating organic trauma and sociopolitical trauma is increasingly porous.Effacing the limits that separate โ€œneurobiologyโ€ from โ€œsociopathy,โ€ brain damage tends also to blur the boundaries between history and nature. At the same time, it reveals that political oppression today assumes the guise of a traumatic blow stripped of all justification. We are thus dealing with a strange mixture of nature and politics, in which politics takes on the appearance of nature, and nature disappears in order to assume the mask of politics.

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Author Catherine Malabou
Publisher Fordham University Press
Release year 2012
Cover type Hardcover
EAN 9780823239672
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