The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain Damage

Contents

ix c o n t e n t s Preamble xi Introduction 1 part one: the neurological subordination of sexuality Introduction: The “New Maps” of Causality 23 1. Cerebral Auto-Affection 29 2. Brain Wounds: From the Neurological Novel to the Theater of Absence 46 3. Identity Without Precedent 57 4. Psychoanalytic Objection: Can There Be Destruction Without a Drive of Destruction? 67 part two: the neutralization of cerebrality Introduction: Freud and Preexisting Fault Lines 77 5. What Is a Psychic Event? 85 6. The “Libido Theory” and the Otherness of the Sexual to Itself: Traumatic Neurosis and War Neurosis in Question 101 x Contents 7. Separation, Death, the Thing, Freud, Lacan, and the Missed Encounter 121 8. Neurological Objection: Rehabilitating the Event 142 part three: on the beyond of the pleasure principle—that it exists Introduction: Remission at the Risk of Forgetting the Worst 165 9. The Equivocity of Reparation: From Elasticity to Resilience 171 10. Toward a Plasticity of the Compulsion to Repeat 189 11. The Subject of the Accident 203 Conclusion 211 Notes 217 Bibliography 245 ...