A01=Charles Shepherdson
Author_Charles Shepherdson
Biological Accounts
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Contemporary French Psychoanalysis
difference
ego
Ego Ideal
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father
Feminine Imaginary
Feminine Jouissance
feminist psychoanalysis
French psychoanalytic theory
Freud's Late Work
Freud’s Late Work
function
gender identity formation
Hysterical Paralysis
ideal
Image
Imaginary Father
Imaginary Triangle
Incestuous Jouissance
La Femme
Lacanian clinical practice
Maternal Desire
mother
Mother Daughter Relation
Oedipal Narrative
order
paternal
Paternal Function
Paternal Metaphor
Phallic Identification
Primal Father
psychoanalysis ecological crisis
Retroactive Fantasy
Seminar VII
sexual
Sexual Difference
subjectivity and embodiment
symbolic
Symbolic Father
Symbolic Order
transsexualism analysis
Unique Historical Position
Product details
- ISBN 9780415908795
- Weight: 660g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Vital Signs offers a radical new understanding of the role of psychoanalytic theory in contemporary French thought. Drawing on the work of Lacan, Kristeva, Foucault, and lesser-known thinkers Eugenie Lemoine-Luccioni and Catherine Millot, Shepherdson argues that we have misinterpreted the nature/culture distinction in relation to psychoanalysis. He shows how the constitution of subject, and the phenomenon of the body, are irreducible to this distinction, and argues that the reception of French psychoanalysis has been wrongly governed by the debate between biological models and symbolic theories of social construction. Shepherdson approaches this dilemma through a series of specific topics, using both theoretical texts and clinical material. The topics discussed (transsexualism, anorexia, maternity, and femininity), allow the author to bridge the gulf between theory and clinical practice, and to distinguish psychoanalysis from its disciplinary neighbors in contemporary social theory. Vital Signs will be of interest to philosophers, psychoanalysts, and those involved in literary and cultural studies.
Charles Shepherdson was recently Assistant Professor of English at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study. He holds a PhD in English from Vanderbilt and has published a number of essays and book chapters.
