1st Edition

The Baby and the Drive Lacanian Work with Newborns and Infants

By Marie Couvert Copyright 2021
122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

122 Pages
by Routledge

The Baby and the Drive presents a new reading of psychoanalytic drive theory, as well as offering clinical tools for early identification of difficulties 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... Read more

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

Biography

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.