Biology of Freedom

Name: Biology of Freedom
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ISBN: 9781590512227

ISBN-10: 1590512227

ISBN-13: 9781590512227

Edition: 2007

Authors: Francois Ansermet, Pierre Magistretti, Susan Fairfield

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This groundbreaking book delivers a much needed bridge between the neurosciences and psychoanalysis. Freud hoped that the neurosciences would offer support for his psychoanalysis theories at some point in the future: both disciplines, after all, agree that experience leaves traces in the mind. But even today, as we enter the twenty-first century, all too many scientists and analysts maintain that each side has wholly different models of the origin and nature of those traces. What constitutes human experience, how does this experience shape us, and how, if at all, do we change our lives? Psychoanalysis and the neurosciences have failed to communicate about these questions, when they have…

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List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Publication date: 12/17/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 8.90" wide x 6.09" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Pierre Magistretti is a professor of neuroscience, Co-director of the Brain Mind Institute of the Ecole Polytechnique Federale (EPFL) in Lausanne, and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Neurosciences at the Centres Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois and the University of Lausanne. He holds the International Chair 2007-2008 at the College de France, Paris. He has served as the president of the European Federation of Neuroscience Societies (FENS).

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
The Polar Bear and the Whale: What Plasticity Entails	p. 1
Diego and Haydn: Perception and Memories	p. 15
Inhibition on the Shore of Lake Trasimene: What Becomes of Perception	p. 37
Aplysia, Rat, Man: From Experience to the Trace	p. 49
Forgetting the Name Signorelli: Synaptic Trace and Psychic Trace	p. 75
Claire and the Pope: Perceptions and Emotions	p. 95
Milk and the Sound of the Door: Mental Traces and Somatic States	p. 107
Man and Wolf: Fantasy, Object, and Action	p. 119
An Unexpected Phone Call: How Drives Originate and What Becomes of Them	p. 133
Incest and the Refrigerator: Pleasure and Unpleasure	p. 147
Freud and James: Let's Be Synthetic	p. 171
Redibis Non Morieris: The Plasticity of Becoming and the Becoming of Plasticity	p. 179
The Couple at a Red Light: The Influences of Internal Reality	p. 193
The Hour of the Traces: The Unconscious, Memory, and Repression	p. 213
The Ferrari and the Trailer: Beyond the Fantasy Scenario	p. 229
Afterword	p. 241
References	p. 245
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