The sublime object of psychiatry : schizophrenia in clinical and cultural theory / Angela Woods.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woods, Angela, author.

Series:

International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.

International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Schizophrenia--Etiology.

Schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia--Social aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Schizophrenia has been one of psychiatry's most contested diagnostic categories. The Sublime object of Psychiatry studies representations of schizophrenia across a wide range of disciplines and discourses: biological and phenomenological psychiatry, psychoanalysis, critical psychology, antipsychiatry, and postmodern philosophy.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part 1 Clinical theory; 1 Psychiatry on schizophrenia: clinical pictures of a sublime object; Cats, mice, and modern psychiatry; Madness and Civilization: insanity and scientificity; Approaching a disciplinary sublime; Schizophrenia and sublimity; Clinical psychiatry and dementia praecox; From dementia praecox to schizophrenia; Schizophrenia today; 2 Schizophrenia: the sublime text of psychoanalysis; The schizophrenic symptom and its secret; Tackling dementia praecox: Jung and Abraham; Freud on Schreber; Reading Schreber; A sublime Schreber

Lacan: the sublime structure of psychosisSchizophrenia and the problem of the father; Part 2 Cultural theory; 3 Antipsychiatry: schizophrenic experience and the sublime; A brief overview of antipsychiatry; Thomas Szasz and anti-sublime schizophrenia; Between two sublimes: schizophrenia and The Divided Self; Schizophrenia as sublime experience; 4 Anti-Oedipus and the politics of the schizophrenic sublime; Introducing schizophrenia and capitalism; Sidelining and sanitizing schizophrenia; Deleuze, Guattari, Schreber; A politics of the sublime; 5 Schizophrenia, modernity, postmodernity

Dementia, regression, Dionysus: three tropes of madnessSchizophrenia and hyperreflexivity; Schizophrenia, modernism, and modernity; The question of postmodernity; 6 Postmodern schizophrenia; Introducing the figure of 'the postmodern schizophrenic'; Schizophrenia and 'The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism'; Beyond Jameson; The postmodern stimmung; 7 Glamorama, postmodernity, and the schizophrenic sublime; The town crier of postmodern consciousness; A postmodern Schreber?; Glamorama and the schizophrenic sublime; Conclusion; References; Author Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O

PR; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Subject Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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ISBN:

0-19-162539-6

0-19-175469-2

OCLC:

927009353