1st Edition

Pink Herrings Fantasy, Object Choice, and Sexuation

By Damien W. Riggs Copyright 2016
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

Damien W Riggs