The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan

A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-77903-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan seeks to understand the human sense of smell and its marks on our subjectivity from a psychoanalytic perspective.

Accessibly written, the book considers whether our understanding of the sense of smell and odours in culture has changed over time, and where we locate olfaction in theories of psychoanalysis. Beginning with the theorisation of the sense of smell in philosophy and medicine, Berjanet Jazani explores what treatment of this sense we can find in historical and contemporary linguistic and cultural context. Jazani then takes examples from the psychoanalytic clinic as well as cultural references, from cinema to ancient literature, to elaborate the marks of the olfactory experiences on our subjectivity and sexuality. Lacanian theories, clinical anecdotes and autobiographical references are woven together to raise some critical questions about the law of odours as well as the invisible marks of breathing on subjective position, body, and symptom.

The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan will be of great interest to psychoanalysts, academics, and all readers who are interested in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and culture.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jazani, Berjanet

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

- The Law of Odours

- What is Smell?

- A Lost Sense?

- Is There an Olfactory Drive?

- Breath of Life, Kiss of Death: On Breathing, the Nose and Olfaction

Über Autor(innen)

Berjanet Jazani is a medical doctor and practicing psychoanalyst based in London, UK. She is the president of The College of Psychoanalysts UK, clinical member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis & Research (CFAR), and the author of Lacanian Psychoanalysis from Clinic to Culture and Lacan, Mortality, Life and Language: Clinical and Cultural Explorations (both Routledge).