Incandescent Alphabets - Psychosis and the Enigma of Language

About the author

Annie G. Rogers, PhD, is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Co-Director of its Psychoanalytic Studies Program. She is affiliated with the Lacanian School of San Francisco and the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland. Dr Rogers has a psychoanalytic practice in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University; a Whiting Fellowship at Hampshire College; and an Erikson Scholar at Austen Riggs. Dr Rogers is also the author of 'A Shining Affliction' and 'The Unsayable', in addition to numerous scholarly articles, short fiction, and poetry.

Summary

This book explores psychosis as knowledge cut off from history, truth that cannot be articulated in any other form. It gives 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.

Product details

• Authors: Annie G. Rogers
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780367325039
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32503-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / General, Psychology, Clinical psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), Lacanian psychoanalysis