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A Non-Oedipal Psychoanalysis?: A Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the Works of Freud and Lacan (Figures of the Unconscious) by Haute, Philippe van; Freud, Sigmund; Geyskens, Tomas; Lacan, Jacques is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The different psychopathologic syndromes show in an exaggerated and caricatural manner the basic structures of human existence. These structures not only characterize psychopathology, but they also determine the highest forms of culture. This is the credo of Freud's anthropology. This anthropology implies that humans are beings of the in-between. The human being is essentially tied up between pathology and culture, and there is no 'normal position' that can be defined in a theoretically convincing manner. The authors of this book call this Freudian anthropology a patho-analysis of existence or a clinical anthropology. This anthropology gives a new meaning to the Nietzschean dictum that the human being is a 'sick animal'. Freud, and later Lacan, first developed this anthropological insight in relation to hysteria (in its relation to literature). This patho-analytic perspective progressively disappears in Freud's texts after 1905. This book reveals the crucial moments of that development. Read more...

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Author

Haute, Philippe van; Freud, Sigmund; Geyskens, Tomas; Lacan, Jacques

Publisher

Leuven University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781211211232

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Anthropology, History