The new wounded : from neurosis to brain damage / Catherine Malabou ; translated by Steven Miller.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-249).

Cerebral auto-affection -- Brain wounds: from the neurological novel to the theater of absence -- Identity without precedent -- Psychoanalytic objection: can there be destruction without a drive of destruction -- What is a psychic event? -- The "libido theory" and the otherness of the sexual to itself: traumatic neurosis and war neurosis in question -- Separation, death, the thing, Freud, Lacan, and the missed encounter -- Neurological objection: rehabilitating the event -- The equivocity of reparation: from elasticity to resilience -- Toward a plasticity of the compulsion to repeat -- The subject of the accident.