Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry: The Lure of Madness

Preface
Contents
1: Introduction
	Continental Philosophy
	An Image of Madness
	An Image of Psychiatry
	The Lure of Madness
	References
Part I: Three Inclusive Exclusions
	2: “A Subtle, Pervasive and Strangely Uncertain Light”: Jaspers on Understanding Madness
		Jaspers on Understanding and Explanation
		Ununderstandability
		Ununderstandability as a Task: Madness at the Limits
		References
	3: “As Strange to Me as the Birds in the Garden”: Bleuler, Jung and the Creation of Schizophrenia
		The Burghölzli Clinic
		Carl Gustav Jung
		Schizophrenia
		Keeping “Bad” Company: Bleuler Between Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis
		References
	4: A Distance from All That Is Human: Freud and Psychosis
		Written on the Body: Women and Hysteria
		Psychoanalysis and Hysteria
		The Schreber Case
		Listening to the Voice of the Other: Sabina Spielrein and the Death Drive
		Beyond the Pleasure Principle
		References
Part II: Through a Glass Darkly
	5: Vital Contact
		What Is Vital Contact with Reality?
		“The Disturbances Commence with Life Itself”: Bion and Vital Contact
		Attention to Life
		Morbid Rationalism
		Coda: Beckett’s Murphy and the Body in Ruins
		References
	6: Ipseity
		Selfhood and Ipseity
		Ipseity and Schizophrenia
		‘Living Is Not Possible in the World’
		The Width of Presence
		The Impossibility of Being What One Is
		The Fragility of Ipseity
		References
	7: The Body
		Bodily Intentionality
		Leib and Körper
		Bodily Doubt
		On Female Embodiment
		Madness and the Corporealisation of the Body
		Self and Other: Expressivism and Its Critique
		Being-with-Others
		Woman as “absolute” Other
		An Opening to the Other
		References
	8: Being-in-the-World
		Being-in-the-World
		Immersed Practice
		Unworlding
		Angst and the Philosophy of Breakdown
		Binswanger’s Intellectual and Psychiatric Formation
		Binswanger and Heidegger’s Analytic of Existence
		“Understood to the Brink of Your Throttled Life”: Ellen West and the Case of Existential Analysis
		The Existential Analysis
		Clinical Doom
		Foucault and Binswanger
		References
Part III: It’s A Mad World
	9: “The World Cannot Acknowledge Its Own Madness”: Alienation and the Destruction of Experience
		“An Inhuman Power Rules Over Everything”: Marx’s Account of Alienation
		Alienation as a “Relation of Relationlessness”
		Civilisation and Its Discontents
		Modern Life as Anaesthetic Life
		References
	10: Reification and Schizophrenia: A Socio-pathological Parallelism
		What is Reification?
		Joseph Gabel: Reification and Schizophrenia
		Honneth on Reification
		References
	11: “Beware, Marcuse”!
		Fromm and Reich: Two Routes for Freudian Marxism
		The Return to Freud and the Critique of Revisionism
		Marcuse’s Psychological Utopianism
		Narcissism: Primary and Secondary
		Beware, Marcuse !
		Between Self-relinquishment and Critical Rationality
		References
	12: “O My Body…”: Fanon and the Pathologies of Recognition
		Fanon’s Formation
		Fanon’s Thesis
		Fanon at Saint-Alban
		The Lived Experience of Blackness
		Négritude
		Pathologies of Recognition
		The “Impalpable Frontiers of Complete Recognition”: Psychiatric Recognition of the Other
		The Colonial Situation and Recognition
		References
Part IV: A Certain Madness Must Watch Over Thinking
	13: “In the Distance of Madness”: Foucault and the History of Madness.
		An Archaeology of Silence: Of “Madness Itself”
		The Foucault-Derrida Debate
		The Otherness of Madness
		References
	14: The Lure of Madness
		The Lure of Madness and the Serenity of the Positive
		Dialectics vs Transgression
		Derrida Again
		References
	15: Lacan: The Shadow of Madness
		Lacan and Paranoia
		The Mirror-Stage and the Vicissitudes of Recognition
		Structuralism and the Symbolic
		Madness and Language
		“… fixed in oblivion and waiting to come to life”: Irigaray on Psychoanalysis
		Madness and the Real
		Three Trajectories for Understanding Madness Beyond Lacan
		References
	16: The Ineffable and Limit-experience
		Limit-experience
		A.W. Moore: “saying a good deal about what cannot be said”
		Henri Maldiney: On Losing One’s Existence
		The Limit-experience as Transgressive: Bataille on Inner experience
		Artaud: The Poison of Being
		References
Part V: Anti-psychiatry and Madness
	17: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
		Institutional Psychotherapy
		A ‘schizo’ Out for a Stroll
		Desiring-Machines
		Body Without Organs
		Schizophrenia, Capitalism, Paranoia
		Schizo-Culture
		References
	18: A Germinal Anti-Psychiatry: R.D. Laing’s Wild Empathy
		“On the fringe of being”: The Divided Self
		Self and Others
		Between Winnicott and Sartre
		Ego-loss
		A Germinal Anti-psychiatry
		References
	19: “It all began with a ‘no’”: The Institution Negated
		Basaglia’s Formation
		Subjectivity and Embodiment
		Goffman and the Asylum as Total Institution
		“A small, open city”: Foucault—Disciplinary Power and Subjectification
		Bare Life
		The Institution Negated
		The Institution Destroyed
		Bracketing Mental Illness
		Beyond Anti-Psychiatry
		References
	20: Epilogue: The End of Madness?
		References
Index