Schizophrenia, A Philosophical Reflection on Lacan’s Structuralist Interpretation : 1972 : Alphonse de Waelhens
by Julia Evans on January 1, 1972
Schizophrenia, A Philosophical Reflection on Lacan’s Structuralist Interpretation :
by Alphonse de Waelhens :
Translated with introduction, notes and bibliography by W. ver Eeke :
1976 (Originally published 1972) : Duquesne University Press, Pittsburgh
Originally published as ‘La Psychose’ : 1972 : Editions Nauwelaerts, Louvain
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Contents
Author’s Foreword pix
Translator’s Preface pxiii
Translator’s Introduction p1
Chapter One.
Some Classic Psychiatric Conceptions of Schizophrenia p27
1. Kraepelin, Emil p27
2. Bleuler, Eugen p32
3. Minkowski. Eugene p35
4. Berze, Josef p37
5. Binswanger, Ludwig p41
6. Szondi, Leopold p45
Chapter Two.
The Acession to Language and Primal Repression. Their Failure in Schizophrenia p49
I. Language and Experience p49
II. Repression of Immediacy and Primal Repression p52
III. Failure of Primal Repression p56
IV. The Sibling or the Incarnated Mirror-Image p76
V. The Lived Body Schema p79
Chapter Three.
The Structural Role of the Oedipus Complex. Absence of the Oedipal Triangle in Psychosis p82
I. The Psychotic and the Oedipus Complex. A Case Study: the Electrician of Rotterdam p82
II. The Elements of the Oedipus Complex p88
III. The Unconscious and the Primacy of the Signifier p92
Chapter Four.
Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Psychosis. The Paternal Metaphor and Foreclosure p97
I. Paranoia (Schreber) p97
II. Freud’s Study about Narcissism p106
III. Other Relevant Studies by Freud p110
IV. Lacan’s Study of the Case of Schreber: General Point of View p114
V. Lacan’s Study of the case of Schreber: New Theoretical Contribution p123
VI. The Eruption of Psychosis and the Concept of “A-Father” p133
VII. The Relative Role of the Mother and Father in Psychosis p136
Chapter Five.
Concluding Reflections on the Problem of Psychosis. Psychoanalytic and Existential Criteria of Psychosis p140
I. The Five Structural Charateristics of Schizophrenia p140
II. Foreclosure and the Distortion of Language p142
III. The Four Remaining Structural Characteristics of Schizophrenia p145
IV. The Paranoiac p149
V. Schizophrenia and Paranoia p155
VI. Paraphrenia p156
VII. Manic-depressive Psychosis p161
Chapter Six
Existential Elucidation of the Unconscious and of Psychosis p163
I. Introduction. The Disappearance of the Primacy of Consciousness. (Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty) p163
II. Preliminary Considerations on the Unconscious, Language, and Reality p169
III. An existential Interpretation of the Unconscious and of Psychosis p182
IV. Transcendence of Man and Its absence in the Schizophrenic p194
V. A Structural Interpretation of the Oedipus Complex p210
VI. Central Role of Language p214
Conclusion p218
I. Delirium and the Problem of the Real p218
II. Philosophy and Mental Illness p224
III. Philosophical Results p225
Bibliography p229
Notes p240
Index p257
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