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Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia After the Decade of the Brain (Figures of the Unconscious)
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In Phenomenology and Lacan on Schizophrenia, Alphonse De Waelhens provides a clear summary of Lacan's theory of schizophrenia, as Lacan derived it from his commentary of Freud's study of the Memoirs of Schreber. De Waelhens also shows how Lacan's understanding of the schizophrenic as having a defective relation to language can also explain four other characteristics of sch
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Paperback, 337 pages
Published
January 1st 2001
by Leuven University Press
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I would have given this 5 stars for the de Waelhens, but for Ver Eecke's introduction.
Ver Eecke's introduction does a good good job of bringing up to date (2001) later changes in bio-medical psychiatric opinion (to De Waelhens 1978 papers), as well as challenging these bio-medical psychiatric opinions, but from the perspective reading in 2020, this section itself lacks (due to its publication date) even more recent challenges.
Whereas De Waelhens part is very good as a perspective on a challeng ...more
Ver Eecke's introduction does a good good job of bringing up to date (2001) later changes in bio-medical psychiatric opinion (to De Waelhens 1978 papers), as well as challenging these bio-medical psychiatric opinions, but from the perspective reading in 2020, this section itself lacks (due to its publication date) even more recent challenges.
Whereas De Waelhens part is very good as a perspective on a challeng ...more
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