American Imago articles from December 22 1992

American Imago archives from December 22 1992

Erasing the body: Freud's uncanny father-child. (Sigmund Freud) (The Body)
December 22, 1992... It is not until almost two-thirds through his essay on "The Uncanny" (1919) that Freud finally turns to the category which he calls "perhaps the most striking of all," that of "death and dead bodies [Tod . . . Leichen]" (Freud 1919a, 241;...

The "nose-baby" (taming horror and language by reconstructing an unconscious body image). (The Body)
December 22, 1992... ... words are the essential tool of mental treatment. A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by "mere" words. He will feel that he is being asked to...

Freud's sublimation: disgust, desire and the female body. (Sigmund Freud) (The Body)
December 22, 1992... I can scarcely detail for you all the things that resolve themselves into--excrement for me (a new Midas!). Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess. December 22, 1897 "More so than men who are coaxed toward social success, toward...

"A glance at the nose": Freud's inscription of Jewish difference. (Sigmund Freud) (The Body)
December 22, 1992... Freud opens his 1927 study of fetishism with a discussion of "the most extraordinary [merkwurdigsten] case": a young man who "had exalted a certain sort of 'shine on the nose' into a fetishistic precondition." Freud (1927) continues: The...

Of fleshly garments: ascesis and desire in the ethic of psychoanalysis. (The Body)
December 22, 1992... In the opening paragraphs of his essay "Kant avec Sade," Jacques Lacan identifies a trend in Western European culture that he views as the indispensable backdrop to Freud's formulation of the pleasure principle. Lacan's perception of this trend...

The cocked eye: Robbe-Grillet, Lacan, and the desire to see it all. (Alain Robbe-Grillet, Jacques Lacan) (The Body)
December 22, 1992... From the remote depths of the corridor, the mirror spied upon us. -- Jorge Borges, "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" For it is in so far as all human desire is based on castration that the eye assumes its virulent, aggressive ...