1st Edition
Lacan on Madness Madness, yes you can't
Part 1: Mad About You: Treatment of Madness. Flor, "The Case of the Baby Diaper Man". Morel, "Ilse or the Law of the Mother". Dana, "From Psychotic Illness to Psychotic Existence: On Re-Inventing the Institution". Gherovici, "The Art of the Sinthome: Joyeuse de Chocolat", Nobus, "On Mind Forg'd Manacles and Mad Monarchs". Part II: The Method in Madness: Theorizing Psychosis. Leader, "What is Manic Depression?" Grigg, "Melancholia without Mourning". Vanhuele, Fayerts, "Madness, Mirror Images and Subjectivity: On Merleau Ponty and Lacan". Yankelvich, "Narcissistic Madness". Pickmann, Raving Mad. Maleval, "Psychosis and Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Braunstein, "You Cannot Choose to go Crazy."Allouch, "Transference in Psychosis", Part III: Nut-so Mad: Madness and Creation.Whitworth, "Singing the Failure of Meaning: Crashaw: Baroque Poetry", Mieli, "Primo Levi: Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge". MacCannell, "Woolf and Joyce: The Writing Ego", Cameron, "Madness or Mimesis: Narrative Impasse in the novels of Samuel Beckett". Steinkoler, "On Reading the Real: Schizophrenic Writing".
Biography
Patricia Gherovici is a psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. Her books include The Puerto Rican Syndrome (Other Press, 2003) winner of the Gradiva Award and the Boyer Prize, and Please Select Your Gender: From the Invention of Hysteria to the Democratizing of Transgenderism (Routledge, 2010).
Manya Steinkoler is a psychoanalyst in formation at Après-Coup New York and a professor in the Department of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College.
"A fascinating collection of essays on the ever-crucial topic of madness in civilization and in the consulting room. The authors here serve us up a fine antidote to the thinking behind the DSM-V." - Bruce Fink, practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst and analytic supervisor. He is a member of the Ecole de la Cause freudienne in Paris and an affiliated member of the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center.
"In editing Lacan on Madness: Madness, Yes You Can't (Routledge, 2015) Gherovici and Steinkoler consciously employ the non-nosological, capacious — one might even say literary – term "madness" to resist normative and abjecting approaches to the insane and think in novel and flexible ways about both psychosis and neurosis… the contributors and editors of Lacan on Madness provide varied, paradoxical, and inspiring answers." - Anna Fishzon for New Books in Psychoanalysis
