<P><EM>Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Plot </EM>is a new radical departure in psychoanalytic exposition. An attempt is made to convey, in a language accessible for people from different disciplines, some of the most difficult processes that conform our subjectivity and our concept of difference and alterity.</P>
<P>Containing both significant theoretical material and applications of the theory to clinical psychoanalytic practice, this book offers the latest thinking on the importance of the body in psychoanalytic theory. <I>Psychoanalysis, the Body, and the Oedipal Plot </I>will be of interest to psychoanalysts, philosophers, and cultural theorists.</P>