Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis

by Charles Shepherdson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415908795
• ISBN13: 9780415908795
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary