| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 262 pages). |
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| Series |
International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry
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International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Schizophrenia -- Etiology.
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Schizophrenia -- Etiology. |
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Schizophrenia -- Social aspects.
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Schizophrenia -- Social aspects. |
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Electronic books.
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| ISBN |
9780191754692 (electronic book) |
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0191754692 (electronic book) |
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9780191625398 (electronic book) |
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0191625396 (electronic book) |
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9780199583959 |
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0199583951 |
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