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The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity

The Perfume of Soul from Freud to Lacan: A Critical Reading of Smelling, Breathing and Subjectivity

Jazani, Berjanet

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral PsychologyMental Health

ISBN10: 1032779039
ISBN13: 9781032779034
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 5 2024
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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.

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