Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language

by Annie G. Rogers

Overview

This book explores psychosis as knowledge cut off from history, truth that cannot be articulated in any other form. It gives a nuanced picture of delusion as a repair of language itself, following Freud and Lacan in historic and contemporary forms of psychotic art, writing and speech.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782203476
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/16/2016
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Annie G. Rogers is Professor of Psychoanalysis and Clinical Psychology at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and Co-Director of its Psychoanalytic Studies Program. She is affiliated with the Lacanian School of San Francisco and the Association for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Ireland. Dr Rogers has a psychoanalytic practice in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; a Radcliffe Fellowship at Harvard University; a Whiting Fellowship at Hampshire College; and an Erikson Scholar at Austen Riggs. Dr Rogers is also the author of A Shining Affliction and The Unsayable, in addition to numerous scholarly articles, short fiction, and poetry.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements and Permissions vii

About the Author ix

Note to Readers xi

Chapter 1 Encounters with a ghastly, enigmatic Other 1

Chapter 2 Psychosis: what is it, this strangeness? 23

Chapter 3 Hallucinated bodies: art and its alphabets in psychosis 45

Chapter 4 Infinite code: clocks, calendars, numbers, music, scripts 73

Chapter 5 After the disaster: six sketches and a short play 103

Chapter 6 Beyond psychosis: returning, remaining traces 127

Chapter 7 Psychosis and the address: new alphabets and the enigmatic Other 151

Chapter 8 Psychoanalysis remade: a way through psychosis 179

References 205

Index 211