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Purloined Organs

Psychoanalysis of Transplant Organs as Objects of Desire

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Authors:
  1. H.A.E. Zwart

    1. Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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  • Presents a unique, psychoanalytical perspective on normative and experiential issues in organ transplantation
  • Focuses on basic quandaries in transplantation medicine, such as embodiment, the moral status of the human body and the concept of bodily integrity
  • Examines transplantation medicine via an oblique perspective, using genres of the imagination (notably organ transplant cinema) to broaden the area of reflection.

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Organ Recycling and Embodiment

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    Pages 1-6

  3. The Body As an Aggregate of Replaceable Parts

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    Pages 7-12

  4. An Ontological Struggle: Integrity Versus Fragmentation

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    Pages 13-16

  5. The Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic: Lacan’s Understanding of Embodiment

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    Pages 17-23

  6. Love and the Idealisation of the Body

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    Pages 25-28

  7. Cannibalism and the Partial Object

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    Pages 29-32

  8. Another Analogy: The Catholic Devotion to the Sacred Heart

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    Pages 33-35

  9. Types of Discourse

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    Pages 37-42

  10. Commodification of Organs As Objects of Desire

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    Pages 43-45

  11. A Lacanian Assessment of Organ Transplantation

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    Pages 47-50

  12. Alfred Adler’s Concept of Organ Inferiority

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    Pages 51-53

  13. Thomas Starzl: A Case History

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    Pages 55-59

  14. The Transplant Organ As an Extimate Object

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    Pages 61-67

  15. Separation and Desire

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    Pages 69-76

  16. Bios and Techne

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    Pages 77-83

  17. Revealing Intrusions/Intruding Revelations

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    Pages 85-88

  18. An Oblique Perspective: Organ Transplant Cinema

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    Pages 89-92

  19. Procuring the Gift

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    Pages 93-95

  20. The Toxicity of the Purloined Implant

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    Pages 97-101
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About this book

This book addresses organ transplantation from a psychoanalytical  perspective. Where other authors consider topics of informed consent, scarcity and organ trade, Zwart explores the ways in which the practice fundamentally challenges our basic experience and image of the body, revolving around issues such as embodiment, ownership and bodily integrity. In organ transplantation, the body emerges as something which we simultaneously have and are—constituting a whole, as well as a set of partial objects that can be transplanted and replaced, donated and sold.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    H.A.E. Zwart

About the author

H.A.E. Zwart is Dean of Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Purloined Organs

  • Book Subtitle: Psychoanalysis of Transplant Organs as Objects of Desire

  • Authors: H.A.E. Zwart

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05354-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05353-6Published: 15 March 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05354-3Published: 07 March 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 140

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Behavior, Self and Identity

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