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In this original work of psychoanalytic theory, John Muller
explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind,
the body and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the
French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and the American philosopher
Charles Sanders Peirce. Muller explores how Lacan's way of
understanding experience through three dimensions--the real, the
imaginary and the symbolic--can be useful both for thinking about
cultural phenomena and for understanding the complexities involved
in treating psychotic patients. Muller develops Lacan's perspective
gradually, presenting it as distinctive approaches to data from a
variety of sources, such as cognitive, social and developmental
psychology, literature, history, art, and psychoanalytic treatment.
The book's first four chapters present Muller's reading of
selected data from child development research, psychology and
linguistics, approximating a semiotic model of "normal"
development. The following three chapters examine in a Lacanian
framework the structural basis of psychotic stages as indicative of
massive semiotic failure in development. The final chapters on
human narcissism suggest reasons that "normal" development may be
impossible.
This work explores the formative power of signs and their impact on the mind, the body and subjectivity, giving special attention to work of the French analyst Jacques Lacan and the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce.
In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan
Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists
and revealed a radical new concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far
reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous
critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn spawned further
responses from other writers. "The Purloined Poe" brings Poe's
story together with these readings to provide a structured exercise
in the elaboration of text interpretation.
This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called
'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological
and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained
increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of
inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and
the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how
nonlinear dynamical systems evolve and change over time and draws
on research arising from chaos theory, self-organization,
artificial intelligence and cellular automata, to name a few. This
emerging discipline shows many points of convergence with
psychological theory and practice, emphasizing that history is
irreversible and discontinuous, that small early interventions can
have large and unexpected later effects, that each life trajectory
is unique yet patterned, that measurement error is not random and
cannot be justifiably distributed equally across experimental
conditions, that a system's collective and coordinated organization
is emergent and often arises from simple components in interaction,
and that change is more likely to emerge under conditions of
optimal turbulence.
This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis
from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's
development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated
from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range
of embodied signs constituting the hysterical neuroses. Symptoms
and signs, Freud noted in 1895, "join in the conversation" by
taking bodily form. The body and the mind form a nexus, which is
the proper area of study for psychoanalysis. Because this is a vast
field of inquiry, a pluralistic perspective is taken by this
collection of papers, ranging from philosophic and semiotic
understandings of the body, to Freudian, Lacanian, feminist, and
object relations hypotheses. Clinical phsnomena such as
self-mutilation, fantasy about the body and its representations and
meanings, enactment, sexuality, and psychotic fragmentation are
addressed in an attempt to extend our understanding of the
psychoanalytic traditions that have evolved in relation to Freud's
discoveries. This volume includes representative work from
established psychoanalysts (Kalinich, Modell), psychoanalysts with
sophisticated philosophical grounding (Frie, Simpson), and
clinicians working with severely disturbed patients (Elmendorf,
Plakun, Tillman, Fromm).
This volume addresses the topic of embodiment in psychoanalysis
from both theoretical and clinical points of view. Freud's
development of a psychoanalytic theory and treatment originated
from his consideration of neurology, aphasia, and the great range
of embodied signs constituting the hysterical neuroses. Symptoms
and signs, Freud noted in 1895, 'join in the conversation' by
taking bodily form. The body and the mind form a nexus, which is
the proper area of study for psychoanalysis. Because this is a vast
field of inquiry, a pluralistic perspective is taken by this
collection of papers, ranging from philosophic and semiotic
understandings of the body, to Freudian, Lacanian, feminist, and
object relations hypotheses. Clinical phsnomena such as
self-mutilation, fantasy about the body and its representations and
meanings, enactment, sexuality, and psychotic fragmentation are
addressed in an attempt to extend our understanding of the
psychoanalytic traditions that have evolved in relation to Freud's
discoveries. This volume includes representative work from
established psychoanalysts (Kalinich, Modell), psychoanalysts with
sophisticated philosophical grounding (Frie, Simpson), and
clinicians working with severely disturbed patients (Elmendorf,
Plakun, Tillman, Fromm).
This volume addresses itself to the ways in which the so-called
'new sciences of complexity' can deepen and broaden neurobiological
and psychological theories of mind. Complexity theory has gained
increasing attention over the past 20 years across diverse areas of
inquiry, including mathematics, physics, economics, biology, and
the social sciences. Complexity theory concerns itself with how
nonlinear dynamical systems evolve and change over time and draws
on research arising from chaos theory, self-organization,
artificial intelligence and cellular automata, to name a few. This
emerging discipline shows many points of convergence with
psychological theory and practice, emphasizing that history is
irreversible and discontinuous, that small early interventions can
have large and unexpected later effects, that each life trajectory
is unique yet patterned, that measurement error is not random and
cannot be justifiably distributed equally across experimental
conditions, that a system's collective and coordinated organization
is emergent and often arises from simple components in interaction,
and that change is more likely to emerge under conditions of
optimal turbulence.
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