Incandescent alphabets : psychosis and the enigma of language / by Annie G. Rogers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

G. Rogers, Annie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoses.

Psychoanalysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Summary:

Psychosis, an invasion of mind and body from without, creates an enigma about what is happening and thrusts the individual into radical isolation. What are the subjective details of such experiences? This book explores psychosis as knowledge cut off from history, truth that cannot be articulated in any other form. Delusion is a new language made of 'incandescent alphabets' that the psychotic adopts from imposed voices. The psychotic uses language in a singular way to found and explain a strange experience that he or she cannot exit. Through the exegesis of language in psychosis based on first person accounts, the book orients readers to an enigmatic Other, pervasive and inescapable, that will come to inhabit every aspect of the psychotic's being, thought and bodily experience. The book deploys a poetics as a form of inquiry to give a nuanced picture of delusion as a repair of language itself, following Freud and Lacan-in historic and contemporary forms of psychotic art, writing and speech.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PERMISSIONS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; Note to readers; CHAPTER ONE Encounters with a ghastly, enigmatic Other; CHAPTER TWO Psychosis: what is it, this strangeness?; CHAPTER THREE Hallucinated bodies: art and its alphabets in psychosis; CHAPTER FOUR Infinite code: clocks, calendars, numbers, music, scripts; CHAPTER FIVE After the disaster: six sketches and a short play; CHAPTER SIX Beyond psychosis: returning, remaining traces; CHAPTER SEVEN Psychosis and the address: new alphabets and the enigmatic Other

CHAPTER EIGHT Psychoanalysis remade: a way through psychosisREFERENCES; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 15, 2016).

ISBN:

0-429-91482-2

0-429-90059-7

0-429-47582-9

1-78241-509-2

9780429475825

OCLC:

955186174