By Catherine Malabou
This publication employs a philosophical method of the "new wounded" (brain lesion sufferers) to degree a war of words among psychoanalysis and modern neurobiology, inquisitive about the difficulty of trauma and psychic wounds. It thereby reevaluates the mind as an organ that isn't separated from psychic lifestyles yet quite at its center.
The "new wounded" be afflicted by psychic wounds that conventional psychoanalysis, with its emphasis at the psyche's have to combine occasions into its personal historical past, can't comprehend or treatment. they're sufferers of varied cerebral lesions or assaults, together with degenerative mind illnesses resembling Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Changes attributable to cerebral lesions usually appear themselves as an exceptional metamorphosis within the patient's id. someone with Alzheimer's affliction, for instance, is not--or now not only--someone who has "changed" or been "modified" yet quite a topic who has develop into another person.
The habit of matters who're sufferers of "sociopolitical traumas," equivalent to abuse, warfare, terrorist assaults, or sexual attacks, monitors awesome resemblances to that of topics who've suffered mind harm. hence this day the border setting apart natural trauma and sociopolitical trauma is more and more porous.
Effacing the boundaries that separate "neurobiology" from "sociopathy," mind harm has a tendency additionally to blur the limits among historical past and nature. even as, it unearths that political oppression at the present time assumes the guise of a nerve-racking blow stripped of all justification. we're therefore facing an odd mix of nature and politics, during which politics takes at the visual appeal of nature, and nature disappears in an effort to think the masks of politics.
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PSYCHOANALYSIS AND NEUROLOGY DO N O T ENTAIL T H E SAME IDEA OF CHANGE What does this mean? ”4° Profound as they may be, such “alterations” or “modifications” never entail an absolute rupture with the patient’s fore going personality. Changes caused by brain lesions, however, frequently manifest themselves as an unprecedented metamofphosis of the patient’s iden tity. “Unprecedented,” in such cases, signifies “without any relation to the subject’s past”: the wound gives rise to a new person, precisely, to one o f the new wounded.
And this identity is itself plastic to the extent that it is susceptible to being imprinted by this new form. Nonetheless, it is clear that wounds— traumas or catastrophes— are not “creators of form” in the positive sense of the term. ” If the wound, as the determining cause o f the transformation o f the psyche, has a plastic power, it can only be understood in terms of the third sense of plasticity: explosion and annihilation. I f brain damage creates a new iden tity, this creation can be only creation through the destruction of form.
There is no beyond of the pleasure principle. T he “ development o f the concept o f sexuality” makes it possible to affirm the evental autonomy (autonomie événementielle)IÇ>of a process that, without entirely separating itself from the nervous system, constitutes itself as an extraterritorial site where the psychic signification o f accidents integral to individual history is elaborated. ” For Freud, a wound such as a brain lesion is, unto itself, psychically mute. The lips o f the wound must be closed to allow the “ other mouth” to speak.