1st Edition
Above the Ground and Beneath the Clouds Schizophrenia in Lacanian Psychoanalysis
By Yannis Grammatopoulos
Copyright 2017
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
276 Pages
by
Routledge
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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. The ways in which these concepts can be of theoretical and clinical use in... Read more
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
Biography
Yannis Grammatopoulos
"In the course of the book, Grammatopolous makes important distinctions between psychotic sub-types, including paranoia and melancholia. His book is to be strongly recommended to those seeking a summation of the many rich and varied things that Lacanian psychoanalysis can offer to the field of the psychoses. It may also be of interest to readers seeking clinical alternatives to the pills and ‘psychoeducation’ of mainstream mental health, delivered from a paradigm that is as theoretically rigorous as it is respectful of individual particularity."
- David Ferraro
