Research Catalog

Title

Biology of freedom : neural plasticity, experience, and the unconscious / François Ansermet, Pierre Magistretti ; translated by Susan Fairfield.

Author

Ansermet, François.

Publication

New York : Other Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Magistretti, Pierre Julius, 1952-

Description

xviii, 254 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Uniform Title

À chacun son cerveau. English

Alternative Title

À chacun son cerveau.

Subjects

• Neurobiology
• Neuroplasticity
• Unconscious (Psychology)
• Subconsciousness
• Individuality
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Psychoanalysis
• Neuropsychology
• Neuronal Plasticity

Note

• Translated from French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-254).

Language (note)

• Translated from French.

Contents

The polar bear and the whale : what plasticity entails -- Diego and Haydn : perception and memories -- Inhibition on the shore of Lake Trasimene : what becomes of perception -- Aplysia, rat, man : from experience to the trace -- Forgetting the name Signorelli : synaptic trace and psychic trace -- Claire and the Pope : perceptions and emotions -- Milk and the sound of the door : psychic mental traces and somatic states -- Man and wolf : fantasy, object, and action -- An unexpected phone call : how drives originate and what becomes of them -- Incest and the refrigerator : pleasure and unpleasure -- Freud and James : let's be synthetic -- Redibis non morieris : the plasticity of becoming and the becoming of plasticity -- The couple at a red light : the influences of internal reality -- The hour of the traces : the unconscious, memory, and repression -- The Ferrari and the trailer : beyond the fantasy scenario.

ISBN

• 9781590512227 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1590512227 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007016741

OCLC

• ocn123539558
• 123539558
• SCSB-5392829

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries