New Wounded Malabou Catherine
New Wounded Malabou Catherine This book employs a philosophical approach to the "new wounded" (brain lesion patients) to stage a confrontation between psychoanalysis and contemporary neurobiology,…
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New Wounded Malabou Catherine
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. 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. 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.
A person with Alzheimer's disease, for example, is not--or not only--someone who has "changed" or been