Description
Book SynopsisDespite the important place it occupies in both Freudian and Lacanian nosology, obsessional neurosis has received far less attention than its erstwhile companion hysteria. This volume of essays aims to elaborate and deepen research into the question of obsession, going beyond the usual cliches which reduce obsession to the question 'Am I alive or dead?', and providing rigorous discussion of some of the following themes: the creation of the category of obsessional neurosis and of OCD, act and action in obsession, debt and guilt, aggression and solicitude, distinguishing the symptomology of obsessional neurosis from OCD phenomena, and clinical questions of work with obsessional subjects.
Table of ContentsCONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
A brief outline of Freud's and Lacan's conceptualisation of obsessional neurosis
Astrid Gessert
CHAPTER ONE
Guilty cognitions, faulty brains: Obsessive-compulsive disorders in the age of the condition-of-autonomy (1980–2010)
Pierre-Henri Castel
CHAPTER TWO
Lacanian Approaches to Obsession
Darian Leader
CHAPTER THREE
The signification of debt in obsessional neurosis
Moustapha Safouan
CHAPTER FOUR
The cutting edge of desire in obsessional neurosis: Lacan with Leclaire
Luca Bosetti
CHAPTER FIVE
The signification of mastery of the control of the orifices in anal eroticism
Moustapha Safouan
CHAPTER SIX
The Rat Man
Charles Melman
CHAPTER SEVEN
The Lacanian Structure of obsessional neurosis
Michel Silvestre
CHAPTER EIGHT
There is a stain on the horizon: A loop or two into obsessional neurosis
Vincent Dachy
INDEX
