Birth of the Other

By: Rosine Lefort, Robert Lefort

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Paperback | 16 March 1994

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   Originally published as Naissance de l' Autre (1980), Birth
        of the Other offers a rare look at language acquisition from a Lacanian
        perspective. In 1951-52 Rosine Lefort conducted the treatment of two largely
        preverbal children, guiding them through psychoanalysis and meticulously
        documenting their activities. Lefort has applied her subsequent training
        in Lacanian theory to these early case notes, which provide remarkably
        lucid examples of exceedingly difficult concepts.
      This exceptional work thus clarifies many misconceptions about psychoanalytic
        theory, furnishes unique insight into what Lacan calls the "time
        of analysis," and grants a clearer understanding of the relationship
        between language and the unconscious.
      "Anyone interested in
        Lacan's psychoanalytical theories should not fail to read these revealing
        clinical studies by one of Lacan's most authoritative and lucid interpreters."
        -- Herman Rapaport, author of Between the Sign and the Gaze

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''Represents decades of clinical meditation on two analyses of very young children conducted in the early 1950s by Rosine Lefort... Anyone interested in Lacan's psychoanalytical theories should not fail to read these revealing clinical studies by one of his most authoritative and lucid interpreters. Readers who have been put off by Lacan's difficulty will find this book especially rewarding.'' -- Herman Rapaport, author of Between the Sign and the Gaze

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Non-Fiction Medicine Other Branches of Medicine Psychiatry Psychology Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Psychoanalytical Theory & Freudian Psychology

Foreword
Translators' Note
Preface
Nadia or the Mirror
The Small Other: Invidia	p. 3
The Big Other: The Separable Object	p. 11
The Scopic Drive: "Getting Oneself Seen"	p. 19
The First Identification: The Transitive Relation to the Other	p. 26
The Fundamental Fantasy: Primary Repression	p. 42
The Pre-Specular: Ambivalence	p. 51
The Small Other - The Doll: The Metaphorical Place of the Subject	p. 76
The Mirror 1 - Our Image: From Metaphor to Metonymy	p. 92
The Mirror 2 - The Turning Around: From Surface to Space	p. 132
The Mirror 3 - The Third Term: The Name-of-the-Father; the Ego Ideal	p. 146
The Holed and Toric Body	p. 167
The Exchange	p. 191
Life	p. 200
Marie-Francoise or Autism
Madness - Neither "a" nor "A": Convulsions in Front of Food	p. 219
The Other - A Real Absence: The Call to the Window	p. 228
The Real and the Hole of the Body: Mine and Hers	p. 237
Really Filling in the Hole of Her Body	p. 244
The Real and the Signifier Separated: Psychosis and Structure	p. 252
The Real, the Demand, and the Signifier: Surface Relations and Distance Relations	p. 265
The Double and the Real: The Loss Revealed in the Scopic and the Absence of the Gaze	p. 278
The Temptation of the Other, Holder of the Object	p. 289
The Mirror in the Real: The Topological Inversion in Psychosis	p. 301
The Emergence of a Call to the Other	p. 319
Conclusions	p. 323
Index	p. 351
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