Nameless understanding learning disability

Is learning disability determined from birth? Psychoanalysis has always striven to reconstruct damaged human subjectivity. However, with a few exceptions, people with learning disabilities have long been excluded from this enterprise as a matter of course. It has been taken for granted that learning...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Niedecken, Dietmut, 1952- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hove ; New York : Brunner-Routledge 2003.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798047906719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Nameless; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Author's preface to the English edition; Foreword by Valerie Sinason; Translator's acknowledgements; Introduction by Mario Erdheim: Learning disability, murder and phantasm; 1. 'Learning Disability' as an institution and the forgotten human dimension; 2. The interface between institution and fate. Diagnosis as a Trojan horse: guilt-exonerating but equally a handicapping label; 3. The process of developing learning disabilities; The creation of potential space - coenaesthetic experience and mimetic competence
  • The withholding of potential spacePotential space demolished and the invasion of phantasms; 4. The enactment of soul murder; 'Little Mongols', 'Down's children' or: the contempt of adjusted people; Autistic perceptive disorder and the mystification of resistance; 5. From anxiety to technological treatment strategies; Impotence, the taboo of hate and conditioning; Fear of the void and people making; 6. Attempts at breaking out; Sound - accompaniment and mediation in the long search for the name; 7. A child without behavioural difficulties; Emerging from a state of numbness
  • Psychotherapy without wordsFinal farewell; 8. Possessed by the devil; Gaining space; A storm brewing and catastrophe; 9. The infantocidal introject; Epilogue: Solidarity; Notes and references; Bibliography; Index