For a Psychoanalysis of the Flesh

Domietta Torlasco

doi:10.3390/h13020045

For a Psychoanalysis of the Flesh

Domietta Torlasco^*

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This essay takes the notion of “flesh” as the point of departure for exploring the viability and contemporary relevance of what Maurice Merleau-Ponty has called an “ontological psychoanalysis”. Primary interlocutors will be Octavia Butler’s novel Kindred and Hortense Spillers’s essay, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book”.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	45
Journal	Humanities (Switzerland)
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/h13020045
State	Published - Apr 2024

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Hortense J. Spillers
Jacques Lacan
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Octavia Butler

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