
The Baby and the Drive
Lacanian Work with Newborns and Infants
Marie Couvert(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. April 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
116 pages
978-0-367-43487-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Baby and the Drive presents a new reading of psychoanalytic drive theory, as well as offering clinical tools for early identi?cation of di?culties and intervention with babies and their parents.
This volume demonstrates that the concept of the drive is the crucial factor in early life. The drive is presented as a force with pathways that are established in the newborn's psychic development. Four drive ?elds are distinguished, which are activated during the ?rst year, and the volume examines the points at which they may encounter di?culties and how these di?culties may be treated. The Baby and the Drive explains that access to the drives and their activation orients work with the newborn-an operation at once fundamental and indispensable if researchers accept the existence of a subject in the newborn.
Allowing a new orientation in work with newborns and infants, this volume will be a valuable resource for academics, scholars, and students of Lacanian studies and Lacanian analysis. It will also be of great interest to Lacanian psychologists and Lacanian psychoanalysts in practice and in training.
This volume demonstrates that the concept of the drive is the crucial factor in early life. The drive is presented as a force with pathways that are established in the newborn's psychic development. Four drive ?elds are distinguished, which are activated during the ?rst year, and the volume examines the points at which they may encounter di?culties and how these di?culties may be treated. The Baby and the Drive explains that access to the drives and their activation orients work with the newborn-an operation at once fundamental and indispensable if researchers accept the existence of a subject in the newborn.
Allowing a new orientation in work with newborns and infants, this volume will be a valuable resource for academics, scholars, and students of Lacanian studies and Lacanian analysis. It will also be of great interest to Lacanian psychologists and Lacanian psychoanalysts in practice and in training.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Postgraduate, Professional, and Professional Practice & Development
Illustrations
1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild
1 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
202 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-43487-8 (9780367434878)
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Persons
Marie Couvert is a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist. She practises at the parent-baby unit of the Clairs Vallons Medical Paediatric Centre (Ottignies, Belgium) and the E. Cavell Medical Center in Brussels; she also has a private practice in Brussels. She teaches at the ISFSC (Higher Institute of Social Education and Communication in Brussels) and runs the graduate Seminar on Infants and Babies at the University of Louvain. She is the author of two books and several book chapters.
Content
Part 1: The Drive and the Psychical Life of Babies 1. The Drive: A Freudian Invention 2. Drive Theory: A Lacanian Reading of the Concept of Drive Part 2: Fields of the Drive in the Clinic 3. The Field of Orality 4. The Field of Specularity 5. The Field of Invocation 6. The Field of Touch 7. Conclusion