Torus, Demand and Desire: Towards a Psychosomatic Structure of Lung Transplantation
Lutz Goetzmann,
Marie Eichenlaub,
Adrian M. Siegel
et al.
Abstract:An organ transplant involves complex psychodynamic processing that has been explored particularly in terms of object relationship theory. In the present study, we develop a model of transplantation based primarily on Lacan's explanations of the torus. In a prospective study, we examined 40 patients, 2 weeks, 3 months and 6 months post-transplant. Based on the analysis of a dream, we identified the so-called 'transplantation complex' in the form of earlier, for example, oral-sadistic fantasies. In a further ste… Show more
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