Lacan on Madness

Madness, yes you can't
Herausgeber: Gherovici, Patricia; Steinkoler, Manya

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays by scholars and clinicians will revolutionize your understanding of madness. Essential for those on both sides of the couch.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780415736152
• ISBN-10: 0415736153
• Artikelnr.: 41092362

Autorenporträt

Patricia Gherovici is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press, 2003) winner of the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize, and Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge, 2010). Manya Steinkoler is a psychoanalyst in formation at Après-Coup New York and a professor in the Department of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Mad About You: Treatment of Madness. Flor
"The Case of the Baby Diaper Man". Morel
"Ilse or the Law of the Mother". Dana
"From Psychotic Illness to Psychotic Existence: On Re-Inventing the Institution". Gherovici
"The Art of the Sinthome: Joyeuse de Chocolat"
Nobus
"On Mind Forg'd Manacles and Mad Monarchs". Part II: The Method in Madness: Theorizing Psychosis. Leader
"What is Manic Depression?" Grigg
"Melancholia without Mourning". Vanhuele
Fayerts
"Madness
Mirror Images and Subjectivity: On Merleau Ponty and Lacan". Yankelvich
"Narcissistic Madness". Pickmann
Raving Mad. Maleval
"Psychosis and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Braunstein
"You Cannot Choose to go Crazy."Allouch
"Transference in Psychosis"
Part III: Nut-so Mad: Madness and Creation. Whitworth
"Singing the Failure of Meaning: Crashaw: Baroque Poetry"
Mieli
"Primo Levi: Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge". MacCannell
"Woolf and Joyce: The Writing Ego"
Cameron
"Madness or Mimesis: Narrative Impasse in the novels of Samuel Beckett". Steinkoler
"On Reading the Real: Schizophrenic Writing".