Purloined Organs Psychoanalysis of Transplant Organs as Objects of Desire /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Zwart, H.A.E (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Clinical psychology.; Psychoanalysis.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Self.; Identity (Psychology).; Clinical Psychology.; Sexual Behavior.; Self and Identity.

This book addresses organ transplantation from a psychoanalytical perspective. Where other authors consider topics of informed consent, scarcity and organ trade, Zwart explores the ways in which the practice fundamentally challenges our basic experience and image of the body, revolving around issues...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Organ Recycling and Embodiment
• 2. The Body As an Aggregate of Replaceable Parts
• 3. An Ontological Struggle: Integrity Versus Fragmentation
• 4. The Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic: Lacan's Understanding of Embodiment
• 5. Love and the Idealisation of the Body
• 6. Cannibalism and the Partial Object
• 7. Another Analogy: The Catholic Devotion to the Sacred Heart
• 8. Types of Discourse
• 9. Commodification of Organs As Objects of Desire
• 10. A Lacanian Assessment of Organ Transplantation. 11. Alfred Adler's Concept of Organ Inferiority
• 12. Thomas Starzl: A Case History
• 13. The Transplant Organ As an Extimate Object
• 14. Separation and Desire
• 15. Bios and Techne
• 16. Revealing Intrusions/Intruding Revelations
• 17. An Oblique Perspective: Organ Transplant Cinema
• 18. Procuring the Gift
• 19. The Toxicity of the Purloined Implant
• 20. Crank 2: High Voltage, or the Purloined Organ
• 21. Depth Ethics and the Oblique Perspective
• 22. Encore: Middlesex and the Re-makeable Body.