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Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater

By Sergio Benvenuto
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By Sergio Benvenuto
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Lacan, Kris and the Psychoanalytic Legacy: The Brain Eater examines the case of a scholar which was commented on by three leading psychoanalysts of the 20th century: Melitta Schmideberg, Ernst Kris, and Jacques Lacan.

Sergio Benvenuto unpicks the complex case history of the patient he calls "Professor Brain", a man who struggled to publish his research because of his fixation on plagiarism, and who has never been identified. Benvenuto reconstructs the case through the first-hand accounts of...

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PsychologyPsychology - Theory, History & ResearchPsychoanalytical Psychology