Cerebral trauma victims need recognition that bypasses psychic translation
Evidence
The lips of the wound must be closed to allow the “other mouth” to speak. Victims of brain lesions must be recognized as “people who are crippled in Contemporary neuropathology increasingly resists such “recognition.” — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 351
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Brain injury cannot be fantasized or represented. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 366; Cerebral trauma victims need a mode of speech outside psychoanalytic interpretation; Neurological trauma can create an identity without origin or memory — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded: From Neurosis to Brain…, 3217 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Cerebral trauma victims need a mode of speech outside psychoanalytic interpretation
#corroborates(0.95) - Neurological trauma can create an identity without origin or memory
#expands(0.80) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 3217 - Neurology observes identity change from lesions without theorizing it
#expands(0.78) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 3440 - Traumatic neurosis is the ego’s flight from a psychic, not an external, threat
#corroborates(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 2396 - Neurological case histories challenge the Freudian definition of psychic plasticity.
#complicates(0.75) — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 1294