Main description:

A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World: On the Body examines the importance of the body in everyday psychoanalytic practice and beyond. Written by world leading clinicians and international scholars, this important book aims to relocate the psychoanalytic body in the modern, more challenging world. Bringing together perspectives from across the range of psychoanalytic schools of thought, it covers essential analytic topics such as family and parenting, sex and gender, illness and psychosomatics, and concepts of the body in infancy.

Though in Freud's writing the intertwining of body and psyche is fundamental, psychoanalytic thought has sometimes downplayed or ignored this idea. This book returns the body to its rightful place in psychoanalysis, and brings the body into the contemporary world of technology and change, offering fresh insight into the sick body, the sexual body, the speaking body, the body of the changing family in which the traditional gendered labels no longer fit seamlessly, gender dynamics and much more.

A Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Body in Today's World gives renewed and increased emphasis to an essential tenant of psychoanalysis. With contributions from some of the most important modern psychoanalysts, this book will prove an essential work for both psychotherapists and academics.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

General Introduction

VAIA TSOLAS

PART I: THE BODY IN OUR CHANGING WORLD

Introduction

Vaia Tsolas

Empathy Machines

Sherry Turkle

Changing Attitudes about Sex: A Dual Inheritance Perspective

Robert A. Paul

Modern Gender Flexibility: Pronoun changes and the Body's Activities

Rosemary H. Balsam

PART II: THE BODY IN THE CHANGING FAMILY

Introduction

Vaia Tsolas

Introduction to: "Transformations of Parentality", by Julia Kristeva, Translated by Edward Kenny

Rosemary H. Balsam

Transformations of Parentality

Julia Kristeva

The Sibling Body Ego

Juliet Mitchell

Perspectives on the Body Ego and Mother-Infant Interaction. I've Got You Under My Skin

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

PART III: THE SEXUAL BODY, THE SPEAKING BODY AND THE SICK BODY

Introduction

Maria Christina Aguirre

Body and Soul. A Never-Ending Story

Paul Verhaeghe

Somatic Ailment and Death Drive: Dangerous Liaisons

Panagiotis Aloupis

What is Alive in the Ill Body? Affect and Representation in Psychosomatics

Marina Papageorgiou

PART IV: SEX, GENDER AND INFANTILE SEXUALITY

Introduction

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur

Foreign Bodies: The Body-Psyche and its Phantoms

Dominique Scarfone

Botched Bodies: Inventing Gender and Constructing Sex

Patricia Gherovici

Repudiation of Femininity and the Aftermath on the Female Sexual Body

Vaia Tsolas

CONCLUDING REMARKS

Christine Anzieu-Premmereur