The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage

by Catherine Malabou

Book Overview

This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology, focused on the issue of trauma and psychic wounds. It thereby reevaluates the brain as an organ that is not separated from psychic life but rather at its center.

The "new wounded" suffer from psychic wounds that traditional psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on the psyche's need...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823239683
• ISBN13: 9780823239689
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"