Body as Psychoanalytic Object

<p><strong>Winner of the 2022 Gradiva® Award for Best Edited Book!</strong></p><p>This book explores the role of bodily phenomena in mental life and in the psychoanalytic encounter, encouraging further dialog within psychoanalysis, philosophy, and the humanities, and contributing new clinical and theoretical perspectives to the recent resurgence of psychoanalytic interest in the body.</p><p>Presented in six parts in which diverse meanings are explored, <i>Body as Psychoanalytic Object</i> focuses on the clinical psychoanalytic encounter and the body as object of psychoanalytic inquiry, spanning from the prenatal experience to death. The contributors explore key themes including mind–body relations in Winnicott, Bion, and beyond; oneiric body; nascent body in early object relations; body and psychosensory experience; body in breakdown; and body in virtual space. With clinical vignettes throughout, each chapter provides unique insight into how different analysts work with bodily phenomena in the clinical situation and how it is conceived theoretically.</p><p>Building on the thinking of Winnicott and Bion, as well as contributions from French psychoanalysis, <i>Body as Psychoanalytic Object</i> offers a way forward in a body-based understanding of object relations theory for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. </p> <p><strong>PART I Mind–Body Relations in Winnicott, Bion, and Beyond</strong> 1 Introduction 2 Being after Winnicott: Minding the Body, Embodying the Mind 3 Does the Body have a Mind? <b>PART II Oneiric Body </b>4 Introduction 5 Body as Dream Space 6 Foreword to "Dreaming into Death": Welcoming Death 7 Dreaming into Death <b>PART III Nascent Body in Early Object Relations </b>8 Introduction 9 Clinical Impasse: The Infant Body and Gathering of a Soul 10 The Environment Within: On the Fetus’s Capacity to Differentiate Self from Other <b>PART IV Body and Psychosensory Experience </b>11 Introduction 12 Embodiment, Dissociation, and the Rhythm of Life 13 River to Rapids: Speaking to the Body in Terms the Body can Understand <b>PART V Body in Breakdown </b>14 Introduction 15 The Self as a Refugee in the Psychosomatic Condition 16 Body as Enemy: The Risk of Coming Alive 17 Autoimmunity as a Response to Analytic Change <b>PART VI Body in Virtual Space </b>18 Introduction 19 The Body Vanishes? Preliminary Thoughts on Bodily Experience and the Identity of the Analyst in Remote Analysis</p>