Yannis Grammatopoulos

Above the Ground and Beneath the Clouds

Schizophrenia in Lacanian Psychoanalysis

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Above the Ground and Beneath the Clouds examines the history, conceptualisation, and treatment of the psychotic sub-type of schizophrenia, as this is advocated by psychoanalysis of Lacanian orientation, which is contrasted to modern psychiatry. The book's main focus is the status of the schizophrenic body and language.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 1479g
• ISBN-13: 9781782205166
• ISBN-10: 1782205160
• Artikelnr.: 47445972

Autorenporträt

Yannis Grammatopoulos

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
The Poor Relation's Story: Schizophrenia in Freud and Lacan
From the splitting of the mind to the unity of the ego
From the ego to the subject
From the subject to the speaking being
The Beautifying Rise and the Disastrous Fall of the Child's Body in Georgios Vizyenos
A body orphan and poor
The beautification of the child's body
The psychotic breakdown
"Knotting it up": a topological approach to Vizyenos
After a Hundred Years: The Contemporary Lacanian Clinic of Schizophrenia
Diagnosis: the schizophrenic subject and the real
The range of schizophrenic inventions
Conclusions