DESCRIPCIÓN
This book explores how the continental philosophical tradition in the 20th century attempted to understand madness as madness. It traces the paradoxical endeavour of reason attempting to understand madness without dissolving the inherent strangeness and otherness of madness. It provides a comprehensive overview of the contributions of phenomenology, critical theory, psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and anti-psychiatry to continental philosophy and psychiatry. The book outlines an intellectual tradition of psychiatry that is both fascinated by and withdraws from madness. Madness is a lure for philosophy in two senses; as both trap and provocation. It is a trap because this philosophical tradition constructs an otherness of madness so profound, that it condemns madness to silence. However, the idea of madness as another world is also a fertile provocation because it respects the non-identity of madness to reason. The book concludes with some critical reflections on the role of madness in contemporary philosophical thought.
AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS
Alastair Morgan

University of Manchester, Manchester, UK



Front Matter
Pages i-xiii

Introduction
Alastair Morgan
Pages 1-10


PART I

Front Matter
Pages 11-13

A Subtle, Pervasive and Strangely Uncertain Light : Jaspers on Understanding Madness
Alastair Morgan
Pages 15-28


As Strange to Me as the Birds in the Garden : Bleuler, Jung and the Creation of Schizophrenia
Alastair Morgan
Pages 29-43


A Distance from All That Is Human: Freud and Psychosis
Alastair Morgan
Pages 45-65


PART II

Front Matter
Pages 67-69

Vital Contact
Alastair Morgan
Pages 71-89


Ipseity
Alastair Morgan
Pages 91-105


The Body
Alastair Morgan
Pages 107-129


Being-in-the-World
Alastair Morgan
Pages 131-162


PART III

Front Matter
Pages 163-165


The World Cannot Acknowledge Its Own Madness : Alienation and the Destruction of Experience
Alastair Morgan
Pages 167-184


Reification and Schizophrenia: A Socio-pathological Parallelism
Alastair Morgan
Pages 185-200


Beware, Marcuse !
Alastair Morgan
Pages 201-221


O My Body : Fanon and the Pathologies of Recognition
Alastair Morgan
Pages 223-247


PART IV

Front Matter
Pages 249-251

In the Distance of Madness : Foucault and the History of Madness.
Alastair Morgan
Pages 253-267


The Lure of Madness
Alastair Morgan
Pages 269-282


Lacan: The Shadow of Madness
Alastair Morgan
Pages 283-305


The Ineffable and Limit-experience
Alastair Morgan
Pages 307-325


PART V

Front Matter
Pages 327-330

Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Alastair Morgan
Pages 331-353


A Germinal Anti-Psychiatry: R.D. Laing's Wild Empathy
Alastair Morgan
Pages 355-381


It all began with a no' : The Institution Negated
Alastair Morgan
Pages 383-404


Epilogue: The End of Madness?
Alastair Morgan
Pages 405-414


Back Matter
Pages 415-421