Localization and Its Discontents: A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines

by Katja Guenther

Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding of the mind. Neurologists and neurosurgeons, meanwhile, have used material apparatus--the scalpel, the electrode--to probe the workings of the nervous system, and in so doing have radically reshaped our...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022628820X
• ISBN13: 9780226288208
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"