A Non-Oedipal Psychoanalysis?: A Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria in the Works of Freud and Lacan

by Philippe Van Haute and Tomas Geyskens

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 'normativity' cannot be defined...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 905867911X
• ISBN13: 9789058679116
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.3" x 6.3"