The body in theory : essays after Lacan and Foucault /
The body has always had the potential to unsettle us with its strange exigencies and suppurations, its demands and desires, and thus throughout the ages, it has continued to be a subject of interest and obsession. This collection of twelve peer-reviewed essays on Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault in...
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments vii
- Introduction: Friendship in a Time of Covid-19
- Becky R. McLaughlin and Eric Daffron 1
- Towards an Understanding of the Olfactory Drive
- Calum Neill and Claudia Di Gianfrancesco 25
- The Living and Dead Body in Foucault's Clinical Gaze
- Lauren Jane Barnett 34
- Is the Autistic Body a Body Without Organs?
- Leon S. Brenner 42
- The Self Destructive Body through the Lens of Foucault and Lacan: Resistance and Jouissance
- Evi Verbeke 56
- Lacan, Film, and the Disabled Body
- Marina Cano 68
- The Hunchback as Visual Paradigm of Violence in Modern Art: Géricault, Dix, and Salomon
- Michiko Oki 80
- The Ego as Body Image: Lacan's Mirror Stage Revisited
- Dan Collins 92
- Desire, Discourse, and Autosurgery in the Fiction of Patrick O'Brian
- John Halbrooks 105
- Ego Portrait: Self Photography as Symptom in Contemporary Technoculture
- Chris Vanderwees 115
- Social Media, Biopolitical Surveillance, and Disciplinary Social Control: Aggregating Data to Examine Docile Bodies
- Michael Loadenthal 124
- From Symptom to Sinthôme: Ridding the "Body of Substance" in My Year of Rest and Relaxation
- Erica D. Galioto 140
- Posthumanist Metamorphosis and Discipline: Barney's Drawing Restraint and Foucault on Raymond Roussel
- Irina Chkhaidze 151
- About the Contributors 177
- Index 179.