Purloined Organs Psychoanalysis of Transplant Organs as Objects of D
This book addresses organ transplantation from a psychoanalytical perspective. Where other authors consider topics of informed consent, scarcity and organ trade, Zwart explores the ways in which the practice fundamentally challenges our basic experi
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H. A. E. Zwart
Purloined Organs
H. A. E. Zwart
Purloined Organs Psychoanalysis of Transplant Organs as Objects of Desire
H. A. E. Zwart Erasmus School of Philosophy Erasmus University Rotterdam Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-3-030-05353-6 ISBN 978-3-030-05354-3 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05354-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2019934091 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Contents
1 Introduction: Organ Recycling and Embodiment 1 2 The Body As an Aggregate of Replaceable Parts 7 3 An Ontological Struggle: Integrity Versus Fragmentation 13 4 The Real, the Imaginary and the Symbolic: Lacan’s Understanding of Embodiment 17 5 Love and the Idealisation of the Body 25 6 Cannibalism and the Partial Object 29 7 Another Analogy: The Catholic Devotion to the Sacred Heart 33 8 Types of Discourse 37 9 Commodification of Organs As Objects of Desire 43 10 A Lacanian Assessment of Organ Transplantation 47 11 Alfred Adler’s Concept of Organ Inferiority 51 v
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CONTENTS
12 Thomas Starzl: A Case History 55 13 The Transplant Organ As an Extimate Object 61 14 Separation and Desire 69 15 Bios and Techne 77 16 Revealing Intrusions/Intruding Revelations 85 17 An Oblique Perspective: Organ Transplant Cinema 89 18 Procuring the Gift 93 19 The Toxicity of the Purloined Implant 97 20 Crank 2: High Voltage, or the Purloined Organ103 21 Depth Ethics and the Oblique Perspective109 22 Encore: Middlesex and the Re-makeable Body113 References129 Index137
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