Unconscious Incarnations: Psychoanalytic and Philosophical Perspectives on the Body (Psychology and the Other)

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Synopsis
Unconscious Incarnations considers the status of the body in psychoanalytic theory and practice, bringing Freud and Lacan into conversation with continental philosophy to explore the heterogeneity of embodied life. By doing so, the body is no longer merely an object of scientific inquiry but also a lived body, a source of excessive intuition and affectivity, and a raw animality distinct from mere materiality. The contributors to this volume consist of philosophers, psychoanalytic scholars, and practitioners whose interdisciplinary explorations reformulate traditional psychoanalytic concepts such as trauma, healing, desire, subjectivity, and the unconscious. Collectively, they build toward the conclusion that phenomenologies of embodiment move psychoanalytic theory and practice away from representationalist models and toward an incarnational approach to psychic life. Under such a carnal horizon, trauma manifests as wounds and scars, therapy as touch, subjectivity as bodily boundedness, and the unconscious ‘real’ as an excessive remainder of flesh. Unconscious incarnations signal events where the unsignifiable appears among signifiers, the invisible within the visible, and absence within presence. In sum: where the flesh becomes word and the word retains its flesh. Unconscious Incarnations seeks to evoke this incarnational approach in order to break through tacit taboos toward the body in psychology and psychoanalysis. This interdisciplinary work will appeal greatly to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as philosophy scholars and clinical psychologists.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
166 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351180177
Related ISBNs:
9780815394945, 9780815394952, 9781351180191
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Brian W. Becker, John Panteleimon Manoussakis and David M. Goodman
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Psychology, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Brian W. Becker
Edited by:
John Panteleimon Manoussakis
Edited by:
David M. Goodman

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