Notes on the General Implications of Leucotomy

2016 ◽  
pp. 477-482
Author(s):  
Donald W. Winnicott
Keyword(s):  
Brain Tissue ◽  
General Public ◽  
London School ◽  
Functional Efficiency ◽  
Unconscious Guilt ◽  
London School Of Economics

In these notes for an address to a conference on leucotomy at the London School of Economics, Winnicott defines leucotomy as the mutilation of normal, healthy brain tissue for the treatment of disorders of the psyche, that is, to alter an individual’s behaviour, to lessen suffering, to make nursing easier, and to restore functional efficiency. Winnicott makes a link between mutilation of brain vis-à-vis castration and anxiety about each, as brain mutilation is symbolic of castration. Winnicott refers also to the effect on the general public, and the fear generated by the threat of leucotomy, including the wish to be mutilated (bringing up masochism and unconscious guilt), a fear of suicide, and the question of the soul and its relation to the psyche-soma.

The Judiciary, International and National, and the Development of International Law

1996 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Y. Jennings
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Justice ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
London School ◽  
International Studies ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
Legal Adviser ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
London School Of Economics ◽  
Law Reports

TheAnnual Digest of Public International Law Cases—the ancestor of theInternational Law Reports—was first published “under the direction” of the Department of International Studies of the London School of Economics. The “chief inspirers”, to use Fitzmaurice's phrase, were Arnold McNair and Hersch Lauterpacht, the latter then on the teaching staff of the School. There was also an Advisory Committee of Sir Cecil J. B. Hurst, a former President of the Permanent Court of International Justice and later Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office; W. E. Beckett, also of the Foreign Office; A. Hammarksjöld, the Registrar of the Permanent Court of International Justice, and Sir John Fischer Williams of Oxford and the Reparation Commission.

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