Childhood beyond pathology : a psychoanalytic study of development and diagnosis /

Farley, Lisa Heather Earlene, 1974-

Childhood beyond pathology : a psychoanalytic study of development and diagnosis / by Lisa Farley. - Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2018. - 1 online resource - SUNY series, transforming subjects : psychoanalysis, culture, and studies in education .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Why Study the Child after a "Century of the Child"?; Critical, Reconceptualist, and Queer Theories of Childhood; A Cast of Characters: Outlining the Chapters; Chapter One The Replacement Child: An Allegory of Loss for Scholars and Students of Childhood; Debating "Mourning and Melancholia"; The Broken Bones of History: The Case of Mister; The Mobility of Duration: Reading Childhood in Time; Chapter Two Psychoanalysis on the Spectrum: From Psychosis to the Child's Rightful Claim of Potency and Privacy; The Right Not To Communicate: The Case of Bob What can be learned from history?Chapter Three The Counterfeit Child: On Race, Gender, and Murder in Junior High; Projection and Splitting; The Racial Privilege of Innocence: The Case of Leticia; Counterfeiting the Counterfeit: On Social Rituals of Critique; Chapter Four Debating Trauma Texts in the Wake of the Residential School: Beyond Damage and Innocence; Debates in Readership and Censorship; Mending Fences: The Case of Junior and Rowdy; Why the Best Kids' Books are Written in Blood; Chapter Five Transitional Phenomena and (Trans)gender Childhood; Gender Diagnosis Transgender as a Viable Subjective Reality: The Case of JennyCreative Regard beyond Recognition; Postscript The Child in Mind: Four Affective Challenges to the Fields of Childhood Studies, Education, and Psychology; Notes; References; Index



9781438470924


Child development.
Child psychology.


Electronic Books.

BF721 / .C455 2018