Lacan on Madness: Madness, yes you can't

Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART 1 Madness manifest: encountering madness
	1 The case of the baby diaper man
	2 Ilse or the law of the mother
	3 From psychotic illness to psychotic existence: on re-inventing the institution
	4 On the suicide bomber: anatomy of a political fantasy
	5 Today’s madness does not make sense
PART II The method in madness: thinking psychosis
	6 “You cannot choose to go crazy”
	7 Treatment of the psychoses and contemporary psychoanalysis
	8 Psychotic transference
	9 The specificity of manic-depressive psychosis
	10 Melancholia and the unabandoned object
	11 Madness, subjectivity, and the mirror stage: Lacan and Merleau-Ponty
	12 Narcissistic neurosis and non-sexual trauma
	13 She’s raving mad: the hysteric, the woman, and the psychoanalyst
PART III Madness and creation: environs of the hole
	14 The open ego: Woolf, Joyce and the “mad” subject
	15 Normality and segregation in Primo Levi’s Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge
	16 Spell it wrong to read it right: Crashaw, psychosis, and Baroque poetics
	17 Madness or mimesis: narrative impasse in the novels of Samuel Beckett
	18 Reading mayhem: schizophrenic writing and the engine of madness
Index