Malachi McCoy
Title: Somatic Prevenance: An Offering of the Body to Symptomatology[1]
Abstract: My paper will ask what it means that something of the hysteric's body goes in front and offers itself up to embody symptoms to include those of protest?
What can we learn from Dr Charles Melman when he says that in hysteria there is a somatic prevenance, not compliance, where something of the body goes before, goes in front offering itself up to symptoms which include those of protest? In addressing and advancing these questions Melman returns to Freud’s writings, upon which we continue to found ourselves.