The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective

Author:   S. Vanheule
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
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9781137462589


Pages:   194
Publication Date:   03 October 2011
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This book discusses what Jacques Lacan's oeuvre contributes to our understanding of psychosis. Presenting a close reading of original texts, Stijn Vanheule proposes that Lacan's work on psychosis can best be framed in terms of four broad periods.

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Author:   S. Vanheule
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.267kg
ISBN:  

9781137462589


ISBN 10:   1137462582
Pages:   194
Publication Date:   03 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: FIRST ERA: THE AGE OF IMAGINARY IDENTIFICATION Psychosis as a Disorder at the Level of the Imaginary PART II: SECOND ERA: THE AGE OF THE SIGNIFIER Towards a Structural Study of Psychosis Foreclosure and its Vicissitudes A Novel Approach to Hallucinations Delusions Scrutinized PART III: THIRD ERA: THE AGE OF THE OBJECT A The Object a and Jouissance in Psychosis PART IV: FOURTH ERA: THE AGE OF THE KNOT Psychosis within the Logic of Knotting and Linking Bibliography Index

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[Vanheule's] clear expository style displays an impressive command of Lacanian theory that will be instructive for anyone who wishes to grasp the difficult logic of Lacan's project. [ ] The Subject of Psychosis may be the clearest and most rigorous analysis of Lacanian theory in print. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association This text offers an excellent reading of Lacan's development of a theory of the subject of psychosis that should serve as a springboard into the practise of the psychoanalytic clinic today. - Theory and Psychology The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective is an extraordinarily clear decomposition of Lacan's trajectory from surrealist concerns with representations of madness to literary attempts to signifierise it. Psychoanalytical Notebooks An important contribution to Lacanian work in English, Vanheule's text is a much-needed, theoretically clear, lucid, sophisticated and critical understanding of Lacanian theory on psychosis. - Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society


[Vanheule's] clear expository style displays an impressive command of Lacanian theory that will be instructive for anyone who wishes to grasp the difficult logic of Lacan's project. [ ] The Subject of Psychosis may be the clearest and most rigorous analysis of Lacanian theory in print. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association This text offers an excellent reading of Lacan's development of a theory of the subject of psychosis that should serve as a springboard into the practise of the psychoanalytic clinic today. - Theory and Psychology The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective is an extraordinarily clear decomposition of Lacan's trajectory from surrealist concerns with representations of madness to literary attempts to signifierise it. Psychoanalytical Notebooks An important contribution to Lacanian work in English, Vanheule's text is a much-needed, theoretically clear, lucid, sophisticated and critical understanding of Lacanian theory on psychosis. - Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society


[Vanheule's] clear expository style displays an impressive command of Lacanian theory that will be instructive for anyone who wishes to grasp the difficult logic of Lacan's project. [...] The Subject of Psychosis may be the clearest and most rigorous analysis of Lacanian theory in print. - Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association This text offers an excellent reading of Lacan's development of a theory of the subject of psychosis that should serve as a springboard into the practise of the psychoanalytic clinic today. - Theory and Psychology The Subject of Psychosis: A Lacanian Perspective is an extraordinarily clear decomposition of Lacan's trajectory from surrealist concerns with representations of madness to literary attempts to signifierise it. - Psychoanalytical Notebooks An important contribution to Lacanian work in English, Vanheule's text is a much-needed, theoretically clear, lucid, sophisticated and critical understanding of Lacanian theory on psychosis. - Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society


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STIJN VANHEULE is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Consulting at Ghent University, Belgium, and a Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst in Private Practice. He is the author of multiple papers on Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic research into psychopathology, and clinical psychodiagnostics.

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