Paranoid Knowledge - Psychoanalysis and the Interpretation of Mad Writing

Paranoid Knowledge: Psychoanalysis and the Interpretation of Mad Writing

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English | 2026 | ISBN-10: 3031997344 | 190 pages| Epub PDF (True) | 5 MB
This book inserts Lacanian theory into contemporary debates within the emerging interdisciplinary field of ‘Mad Studies’ via an analysis of psychotic writing. The author questions what psychoanalysis can offer a progressive, emancipatory means for engaging madness. Taking the Memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber and the Exegesis of Philip K. Dick as the primary sites of investigation, the book examines how the written representations of paranoid psychosis have historically been exploited to further clinical insights and forms of social critique.