By Catherine Malabou
ISBN-10: 0823239683
ISBN-13: 9780823239689
This booklet employs a philosophical method of the "new wounded" (brain lesion sufferers) to level a disagreement among psychoanalysis and modern neurobiology, interested by the difficulty of trauma and psychic wounds. It thereby reevaluates the mind as an organ that isn't separated from psychic existence yet particularly at its center.
The "new wounded" be afflicted by psychic wounds that conventional psychoanalysis, with its emphasis at the psyche's have to combine occasions into its personal heritage, can't comprehend or medication. they're sufferers of assorted cerebral lesions or assaults, together with degenerative mind illnesses corresponding to Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Changes brought on by cerebral lesions usually take place themselves as an unheard of metamorphosis within the patient's identification. someone with Alzheimer's disorder, for instance, is not--or no longer only--someone who has "changed" or been "modified" yet relatively a subject matter who has turn into another person.
The habit of matters who're sufferers of "sociopolitical traumas," reminiscent of abuse, battle, terrorist assaults, or sexual attacks, screens outstanding resemblances to that of topics who've suffered mind harm. therefore at the present time the border keeping apart natural trauma and sociopolitical trauma is more and more porous.
Effacing the bounds that separate "neurobiology" from "sociopathy," mind harm has a tendency additionally to blur the bounds among historical past and nature. even as, it unearths that political oppression at the present time assumes the guise of a anxious blow stripped of all justification. we're therefore facing an odd mix of nature and politics, during which politics takes at the visual appeal of nature, and nature disappears on the way to suppose the masks of politics.
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On the contrary, I will undertake a reading o f Freud that will turn upon the elaboration of the notion o f the psychic event In order to facilitate a confrontation between Freudian thinking and the contemporary neurological thinking of the event, I will follow the path opened by the disciplinary formation of neuropsychoanalysis. 26 The scientists who work under the banner of neuropsychoanalysis uphold the necessity of returning to Freud without thereby eschewing the principle of the cerebral etiology o f mental disturbances.
O f course, in neuropathological cases, neuronal changes are the cause of psychic disorganization, whereas they are the consequence o f psychic disor ganization in cases o f sociopolitical trauma. Nonetheless, in all of these situations, the same impact of the event is at work, the same economy of the accident, the same relation between the psyche and catastrophe. N o t all traumas, lesional or sociopolitical, are always fortuitous, and there is never a simple relation between the “normal” interior o f the psyche and the violent irruption of an unpredictable exterior.
Nervous influx is understood to be a form of energy that streams through the neurons but is not engendered by them. ”7 This energy coming from outside is nothing other than the libido, “which can be excessive, insufficient, dammed up in one place, free-flowing in another. According to Freud, the different vicissitudes of the drive explain the formation of complexes such as the Oedipus complex and their pathogenic developments, such as neurosis and psychosis. However, we know today that mental energy does not have an extraneuronal origin: the axon o f the neuron produces the nervous influx that streams toward the nerve endings.
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