The sublime object of psychiatry : schizophrenia in clinical and cultural theory /
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Author / Creator: | Woods, Angela. |
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Imprint: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. |
Description: | viii, 262 p. ; 24 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry International perspectives in philosophy and psychiatry. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8531117 |
Table of 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 psychosis
- Schizophrenia 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 madness
- Schizophrenia 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
- Subject Index