Freud's Schreber between psychiatry and psychoanalysis : on subjective disposition to psychosis / Thomas G. Dalzell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalzell, Thomas G., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis.

Psychoses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (545 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Karnac, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book investigates what was distinctive about the predisposition to psychosis Freud posited in Daniel Paul Schreber, a presiding judge in Saxony's highest court. It argues that Freud's 1911 Schreber text reversed the order of priority in late nineteenth-century conceptions of the disposing causes of psychosis - the objective-biological and subjective-biographical - to privilege subjective disposition to psychosis, but without returning to the paradigms of early nineteenth-century Romantic psychiatry and without obviating the legitimate claims of biological psychiatry in relation to heredit

Contents:

Cover; Copy Right; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; PREFACE; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Freud's exemplary case of psychosis: Daniel Paul Schreber; CHAPTER TWO: Disposition to psychosis in Freud's Schreber text; CHAPTER THREE: Psychosis in Freud's papers before and after his Schreber text; CHAPTER FOUR: Freud and Emil Kraepelin; CHAPTER FIVE: Freud and the Viennese psychiatrists; CHAPTER SIX: Freud and Eugen Bleuler; CHAPTER SEVEN: Hereditary disposition in Freud's aetiological chain; CHAPTER EIGHT: The reception of Freud's 1911 aetiology by psychoanalysts

CHAPTER NINE: Jacques Lacan on Freud's SchreberConclusion; REFERENCES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780429896966

9786613071248

9780429914072

0429914075

9780429475078

0429475071

9781283071246

128307124X

9781849408783

1849408785

OCLC:

723944421