
Pink Herrings
Fantasy, Object Choice, and Sexuation
Damien W. Riggs(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2019
Book
Hardback
172 pages
978-0-367-10301-9 (ISBN)
Description
Pink Herrings engages in a re-examination of six of Freud's cases via Lacan's account of sexuation. Specifically, the book outlines a theoretical framework in which sexuation is understood as a 'choice' made in response to the fact of the sexual non relationship. In making this choice, unconscious fantasy allows for the circulation of object a, which bear traces of jouissance. Drawing upon Lacan's distinction between phallic and other jouissance, Pink Herrings examines the four positions outlined in Lacan's formula of sexuation, and maps these onto the six case studies. In so doing, Pink Herrings not only brings new life and insights to the cases, but also clears a path to what is referred to as a 'clinic of sexuation'. Such a clinic would not replace existing Lacanian psychoanalytic practice (with its focus on the structures of neurosis, perversion and psychosis), but instead provide additional avenues through which to explore the operations of fantasy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-10301-9 (9780367103019)
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Damien W Riggs
Content
Series Forword , Introduction , Lacan's formula of sexuation , The psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in a woman , From the history of an infantile neurosis , Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria , Analysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy , Notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis , Psycho-analytic notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia , A clinic of sexuation