Pink herrings : fantasy, object choice, and sexuation
Damien W. Riggs (Author)
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 Lacan's distinction between phallic and other jouissance, Pink Herrings examines the four positions outlined in Lacan's formula of sexuation, and maps these onto the six case studies. In so doing, Pink Herrings not only brings new life and insights to the cases, but also clears a path to what is referred to as a 'clinic of sexuation'. Such a clinic would not replace existing Lacanian psychoanalytic practice (with its focus on the structures of neurosis, perversion and psychosis), but instead provide additional avenues through which to explore the operations of fantasy
eBook, English, 2015
Karnac Books : Made available through hoopla, [United States], 2015
1 online resource.
9781781815618, 1781815615
974262477
COVER
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE Lacan's Formula of Sexuation
CHAPTER TWO The psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in a woman
CHAPTER THREE From the history of an infantile neurosis
CHAPTER FOUR Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria
CHAPTER FIVE Analysis of a phobia in a five-year-old boy
CHAPTER SIX Notes upon a case of obsessional neurosis
CHAPTER SEVEN Psycho-analytic notes on an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia
CHAPTER EIGHT A clinic of sexuation
REFERENCES
INDEX