Unconscious Incarnations

Brian W. Becker is Associate Professor of Neuropsychology at Lesley University. His research focuses on the intersections of phenomenology, religion, and psychoanalysis. John Panteleimon Manoussakis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross, and an Honorary Fellow at the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy of the Australian Catholic University. David M. Goodman is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Advising at the Woods College of Advancing Studies at Boston College and Associate Professor of Practice in the Philosophy department at Boston College’s Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences.

• Introduction: Real Flesh, Imaginary Bodies: Phenomenology and Lacan on Embodiment Brian W. Becker & John Panteleimon Manoussakis Chapter 1: A Hermeneutics of Wounds Richard Kearney Chapter 2: Encountering the Psychoanalyst’s Suffering: Discussion of Kearney’s The Hermeneutics of Wounds Elizabeth Corpt Chapter 3: The Place of das Ding: Psychoanalysis, Phenomenology, and Religion John Panteleimon Manoussakis Chapter 4: The Cost of das Ding: A Response to Manoussakis’ The Place of das Ding Brian W. Becker Chapter 5: The Real of Ethics: On a Widespread Misconception Marc De Kesel Chapter 6: The Ethics of the Real: A Response to De Kessel Mari Ruti Chapter 7: Lacan and the Psychological Derek Hook Chapter 8: (Ab)normality as Spectrum: Merleau-Ponty, Ogden, and Lacan on Autism Yue Jennifer Wang

"Unconscious Incarnations belongs among those books that push thought in new directions. The engagement of a series of questions and answers between phenomenology and psychoanalysis has rarely been so perfectly conducted. In this work, incorporation takes precedence over the standard phenomenological notion of incarnation. No longer content with this "flesh" as "lived body," this work addresses the "real body," or the "flesh" understood as an organic life that supports our passions and desires. Wounds and scars of the body, flesh and das Ding, body and desire, imaginary body and objectified body: In each of these themes we discover being born a new fecundity between psychoanalysis and phenomenology. This work, undoubtedly, will serve to break new ground."-Emmanuel Falque, Honorary Dean, Catholic University of Paris.