Localization and Its Discontents

Localization and Its Discontents
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9780226288345
ISBN-13 : 022628834X
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Book Synopsis Localization and Its Discontents by : Katja Guenther

Download or read book Localization and Its Discontents written by Katja Guenther and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding of the mind. Neurologists and neurosurgeons, meanwhile, have used material apparatus—the scalpel, the electrode—to probe the workings of the nervous system, and in so doing have radically reshaped our understanding of the brain. Both operate in vastly different institutional and cultural contexts. Given these differences, it is remarkable that both fields found resources for their development in the same tradition of late nineteenth-century German medicine: neuropsychiatry. In Localization and Its Discontents, Katja Guenther investigates the significance of this common history, drawing on extensive archival research in seven countries, institutional analysis, and close examination of the practical conditions of scientific and clinical work. Her remarkable accomplishment not only reframes the history of psychoanalysis and the neuro disciplines, but also offers us new ways of thinking about their future.


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