Lacan on Madness - Madness, Yes You Can''t

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

List of contents

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".

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Steinkoler Gherovici
• Assisted by: Patricia Gherovici (Editor), Gherovici Patricia (Editor), Manya Steinkoler (Editor), Steinkoler Manya (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2015
• EAN: 9780415736169
• ISBN: 978-0-415-73616-9
• No. of pages: 286
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / Schizophrenia, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis