Description: Freud's Jaw and Other Lost Objects by Lana Lin Draws on psychoanalyst Melanie Kleins theories, among others, to examine the psychic effects of illness, in particular cancer, on the life and work of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Also discusses psychic and material culture at the Freud Museums in London and Vienna. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description What does it mean to live with life-threatening illness? How does one respond to loss? Freuds Jaw and Other Lost Objects attempts to answer these questions and, as such, illuminates the vulnerabilities of the human body and how human beings suffer harm. In particular, it examines how cancer disrupts feelings of bodily integrity and agency. Employing psychoanalytic theory and literary analysis, Lana Lin tracks three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary and queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Freuds sixteen-year ordeal with a prosthetic jaw, the result of oral cancer, demonstrates the powers and failures of prosthetic objects in warding off physical and psychic fragmentation. Lordes life writing reveals how losing a breast to cancer is experienced as yet another attack directed toward her racially and sexually vilified body. Sedgwicks memoir and breast cancer advice column negotiate her morbidity by disseminating a public discourse of love and pedagogy. Lin concludes with an analysis of reparative efforts at the rival Freud Museums in London and Vienna. The disassembled Freudian archive, like the subjectivities-in-dissolution upon which the book focuses, shows how the labor of integration is tethered to persistent discontinuities.Freuds Jaw asks what are the psychic effects of surviving in proximity to ones mortality, and it suggests that violences stemming from social, cultural, and biological environments condition the burden of such injury. Drawing on psychoanalyst Melanie Kleins concept of "reparation," wherein constructive forces are harnessed to repair damage to internal psychic objects, Lin proposes that the prospect of imminent destruction paradoxically incites creativity. The afflicted are obliged to devise means to reinstate, at least temporarily, their destabilized physical and psychic unity through creative, reparative projects of love and writing. Author Biography Lana Lin is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, New York. Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF FIGURES INTRODUCTION Psychoanalysis and the Cancerous Object Psychoanalysis and Death Key Psychoanalytic Concepts Psychic Life of Objects Methodologies: Psychoanalysis and Pathography Overview of Chapters IPROSTHETIC OBJECTS: ON SIGMUND FREUDS AMBIVALENT ATTACHMENTS The Prosthetic Contest Between Human and Nonhuman The Prosthetic Condition as Technological Predicament The Prosthetic as Psychic Object A Narcoanalysis of Freuds Illness Cancer as Not-Death His Living Prostheses IIKEEN FOR THE FIRST OBJECT: A KLEINIAN READING OF AUDRE LORDES LIFE WRITING The Breast as Psychic Object The Breast as Political Object Objectification and Object Relations Orality: Creation and Destruction, Parts and Wholes The Breast as Fetish Object Mourning the Lost Object IIIOBJECT-LOVE IN THE LATER WRITINGS OF EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK A Public Discourse of Love Love as Comic Instruction Sedgwicks Forms of Love Object-Use, Object-Love Bad Pedagogy/Good Pedagogy "Let Another Finish the Poem ..." IVREPARATIVE OBJECTS IN THE FREUDIAN ARCHIVES The Museum as Creative Construction Remedy and Re-animation at the Freud Museum, London The Life and Death of Objects Melancholia and Reparation at the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna Fetishism of the Lost Object CONCLUSION: LAST OBJECTS BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Review "Lana Lins Freuds Jaw and Other Lost Objects is at once searingly beautiful, analytically searching and technically clarifying. The case is cancer, the main object is the breast, and through Freud, Lorde, and Sedgwick Lin elaborates a subjectivity of survival. She tells a story of how these authors died in their own fashion, processing the invasiveness and strange freedom of becoming an object in illness. She also sees their modes of identification, and her own, as a kind of reparative teaching in the middle of crisis. Lins work with her authors, plus Melanie Klein, W.R. Bion, and D. W. Winnicott, makes this book important for any scholar of affect and embodiment. But general readers of illness memoir will also find a richness of description that will allow them to feel held in the volatile, rich, and searching space illness can become." -- -Lauren Berlant George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago Long Description What does it mean to live with life-threatening illness? How does one respond to loss? Freuds Jaw and Other Lost Objects attempts to answer these questions and, as such, illuminates the vulnerabilities of the human body and how human beings suffer harm. In particular, it examines how cancer disrupts feelings of bodily integrity and agency. Employing psychoanalytic theory and literary analysis, Lana Lin tracks three exemplary figures, psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, poet Audre Lorde, and literary and queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Freuds sixteen-year ordeal with a prosthetic jaw, the result of oral cancer, demonstrates the powers and failures of prosthetic objects in warding off physical and psychic fragmentation. Lordes life writing reveals how losing a breast to cancer is experienced as yet another attack directed toward her racially and sexually vilified body. Sedgwicks memoir and breast cancer advice column negotiate her morbidity by disseminating a public discourse of love and pedagogy. Lin concludes with an analysis of reparative efforts at the rival Freud Museums in London and Vienna. The disassembled Freudian archive, like the subjectivities-in-dissolution upon which the book focuses, shows how the labor of integration is tethered to persistent discontinuities. Freuds Jaw asks what are the psychic effects of surviving in proximity to ones mortality, and it suggests that violences stemming from social, cultural, and biological environments condition the burden of such injury. Drawing on psychoanalyst Melanie Kleins concept of "reparation," wherein constructive forces are harnessed to repair damage to internal psychic objects, Lin proposes that the prospect of imminent destruction paradoxically incites creativity. The afflicted are obliged to devise means to reinstate, at least temporarily, their destabilized physical and psychic unity through creative, reparative projects of love and writing. Review Quote "Lana Lins Freuds Jaw and Other Lost Objects is at once searingly beautiful, analytically searching and technically clarifying. The case is cancer, the main object is the breast, and through Freud, Lorde, and Sedgwick Lin elaborates a subjectivity of survival. She tells a story of how these authors died in their own fashion, processing the invasiveness and strange freedom of becoming an object in illness. She also sees their modes of identification, and her own, as a kind of reparative teaching in the middle of crisis. Lins work with her authors, plus Melanie Klein, W.R. Bion, and D. W. Winnicott, makes this book important for any scholar of affect and embodiment. But general readers of illness memoir will also find a richness of description that will allow them to feel held in the volatile, rich, and searching space illness can become."--Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago Description for Reader Lana Lin is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, New York. Details ISBN0823277712 Author Lana Lin Pages 224 Publisher Fordham University Press Year 2017 ISBN-10 0823277712 ISBN-13 9780823277711 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2017-11-07 Imprint Fordham University Press Subtitle Fractured Subjectivity in the Face of Cancer Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 155.916 Short Title Freuds Jaw and Other Lost Objects Language English UK Release Date 2017-11-07 AU Release Date 2017-11-07 NZ Release Date 2017-11-07 US Release Date 2017-11-07 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:130292553;
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