Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder

Phantom Limbs and Body Integrity Identity Disorder discusses the conditions of Phantom Limb Syndrome and Body Integrity Identity Disorder together for the first time, exploring examples from literature, film, and psychoanalysis to re-ground theories of the body in material experience.

Monika Loewy, PhD, obtained her doctorate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. She teaches and writes on film, twentieth and twenty-first-century literature, and psychoanalysis.

PART I. Why Psychoanalysis and Literature? 1. Introduction 2. "We didn't ask for this pain" 3. Science, Literature, and Psychoanalysis 4. Negative Hallucination and "The Man from Burma" PART II. Symbolic Exchanges and Reconstitutions 5. The Mirror-stage, Blanchot, and "Orpheus's Gaze" 6. The Red Shoes 7. Breakdown: D.W. Winnicott 8. Death Proof 9. Almost Artificial Limbs: Perec's W or The Memory of Childhood 10. A Psychoanalytic Voyage: Perec and Symbolic Reconstitution 11. Conclusion