Purloined Organs Psychoanalysis of Transplant Organs as Objects of Desire /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Zwart, H.A.E (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Summary:	VII, 140 p. 5 illus., 1 illus. in color. text
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:	Clinical psychology. Psychoanalysis. Sex (Psychology). Philosophy of mind. Self. Clinical Psychology. Psychology of Gender and Sexuality. Philosophy of the Self.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05354-3
Format:	Electronic eBook

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction: Organ Recycling and Embodiment
2. The Body As an Aggregate of Replaceable Parts
3. An Ontological Struggle: Integrity Versus Fragmentation
4. The Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic: Lacan's Understanding of Embodiment
5. Love and the Idealisation of the Body
6. Cannibalism and the Partial Object
7. Another Analogy: The Catholic Devotion to the Sacred Heart
8. Types of Discourse
9. Commodification of Organs As Objects of Desire
10. A Lacanian Assessment of Organ Transplantation. 11. Alfred Adler's Concept of Organ Inferiority
12. Thomas Starzl: A Case History
13. The Transplant Organ As an Extimate Object
14. Separation and Desire
15. Bios and Techne
16. Revealing Intrusions/Intruding Revelations
17. An Oblique Perspective: Organ Transplant Cinema
18. Procuring the Gift
19. The Toxicity of the Purloined Implant
20. Crank 2: High Voltage, or the Purloined Organ
21. Depth Ethics and the Oblique Perspective
22. Encore: Middlesex and the Re-makeable Body.

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