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The New Wounded - From Neurosis to Brain Damage (Hardcover)
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The New Wounded - From Neurosis to Brain Damage (Hardcover)
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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