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The New Wounded - From Neurosis to Brain Damage (Paperback)
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The New Wounded - From Neurosis to Brain Damage (Paperback)
Series: Forms of Living
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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 to integrate events into its own history, cannot understand or
cure. They are victims of various cerebral lesions or attacks,
including degenerative brain diseases such as Parkinson’s and
Alzheimer’s. Changes caused by cerebral lesions frequently
manifest themselves as an unprecedented metamorphosis in the
patient’s identity. A person with Alzheimer’s disease, for
example, is not—or not only—someone who has “changed” or
been “modified” but rather a subject who has become someone
else. The behavior of subjects who are victims of “sociopolitical
traumas,” such as abuse, war, terrorist attacks, or sexual
assaults, displays striking resemblances to that of subjects who
have suffered brain damage. Thus today the border separating
organic trauma and sociopolitical trauma is increasingly porous.
Effacing the limits that separate “neurobiology” from
“sociopathy,” brain damage tends also to blur the boundaries
between history and nature. At the same time, it reveals that
political oppression today assumes the guise of a traumatic blow
stripped of all justification. We are thus dealing with a strange
mixture of nature and politics, in which politics takes on the
appearance of nature, and nature disappears in order to assume the
mask of politics.
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