Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis

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Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis

Conversion disorderâ€•a psychiatric term that names the enigmatic transformation of psychic energy into bodily manifestationsâ€•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 themselvesâ€•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 conversionâ€™s shifting meaningsâ€•in religious, economic, and even chemical processesâ€•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 patientâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Columbia University Press
Manufacturer Columbia University Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780231184083
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780231184083
ReleaseDate 2018-11-06

Country	USA
Brand	Columbia University Press
Manufacturer	Columbia University Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780231184083
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780231184083
ReleaseDate	2018-11-06

Conversion Disorder: Listening to the Body in Psychoanalysis

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