Front Cover; Psychotic Temptation; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Rifts in the ego; Part One The Time of Psychosis: From "Actual" to "Present"; 1 The question of origins; 2 When going back is impossible; 3 "Actual-ness", broken time, time in confusion; Part Two A Space for Psychosis: From Writing to Psychoanalytic Psychodrama; 4 Correspondence; 5 The materiality of writing; 6 Imprinting and the effects of reality; Part Three The Vertigo of Creation; 7 Liminal space, manic writing; 8 The delusional temptation and imaging thinking; Notes; References; Index
Summary
"How can we understand the pull towards that which we fear: psychosis? In this thought provoking book, Abensour proposes the idea of a temptation towards psychosis rather than a regression, as a response to the hatred or denial of the subject's origins. She shares her reflections on her psychoanalytic work with psychotic patients focusing on their struggle to achieve a coherent sense of a self that can inhabit a shared world. Abensour locates this struggle within the universal human struggle to achieve a balance between what we can and cannot allow ourselves to know about the reality of death and of our insignificance in the world"-- Provided by publisher
