Madness and Modernism
Acknowledgments
Prologue: The Sleep of Reason
Chapter 1: Introduction
Traditional Twentieth-Century views of Schizophrenia
Doctrine of the Abyss and the Broken Brain
The Original Infantile Story
The Wildman: Hero of Desire
Anomalous Features of Schizophrenia
A Bizarre Tradition and a Tradition of the Bizarre
Avant-Gardism, the Adversarial Stance
Perspectivism and Relativism
Dehumanization, or the Disappearance of the Active Self
Derealization and the “Unworlding of the World”
“Spatial Form”
Aesthetic Self-Referentiality
Irony and Detachment
Modernism: Hyperreflexivity and Alienation
PART ONE: EARLY SIGNS AND PRECURSORS: PERCEPTION AND PERSONALITY
Chapter 2: The Truth-Taking Stare
The Stimmung in Schizophrenia
Unreality
Mere Being
Fragmentation
Apophany
Traditional Interpretations
The Anti-Epiphany in Modernism
“Tacit Intimations”: On the Formation of Delusions
Futurism, Surrealism, and the Modernist Stare
Act or Affliction?
Chapter 3: The Separated Self
Schizoid Personality
Theories and Subtypes of Schizoid Personality
The Views of Ernst Kretshmer
Franz Kafka: A Hypersensitive Sensibility
Charles Baudelairs: A New Aesthetics of Disdain
Parallels with Modern Culture: Disconnection
Interiorizing Trends
Loss of Reality
Parallels with Modern Culture: Uncoupling
Role Distance
Abdication of the Public Self
Unconventionality and Inauthenticity
The Path of Most Resistance: Schizoid Traits in Overt Schizophrenia
A Counter-Etiquette
The “Famous Empty Smile”
PART TWO: ASPECTS OF MADNESS: THOUGHT AND LANGUAGE
Chapter 4: Cognitive Slippage
Schizophrenic Thinking
Traditional Theories
Eccentricity of Perspective
Vacillation and Inconsistency
Parallels with Modernism
Heroism of Doubt
Relativism and Perspectivism: “Vertigo of the Modern”
Chapter 5: Disturbances of Distance
Verbal Concepts and Nietzscean Dualism
Narrative Understanding
Narrative Form and Schizophrenia
Spatial form in Modern Literature
Escape from Time
Visual Form
Schizophrenia and the Rorschach Test
The Visual Arts
Chapter 6: Languages of Inwardness
Trends in Schizophrenic Language
Desocialization
Autonomization
Impoverishment
Traditional Theories of Schizophrenic Language
Parallels with Modernism
Impoverishment and Ineffability
Inner Speech
The Apotheosis of the Word
Intention and Meaning in Schizophrenic Speech
PART THREE: SELF AND WORLD IN THE FULL-BLOWN PSYCHOSIS
Chapter 7: Loss of Self
Psychiatric, Psychoanalytic, and Avant-Gardist Views
Coming Apart: Modern Culture and the Self
William James: Searching for the Self
Literary Developments: “Imagination Imagining Itself Imagine”
Self-Disorders in Schizophrenia
The Influencing Machine
“Dispossession” and “Furtive Abductions”
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Memoirs of a Nervous Illness
Schreber’s Delusional Cosmos
Panopticism
“Rays” and “God”
“Nerves” and “Nerve-Language”
An Allegory of Innerness
Body and Soul
Chapter 9: The Morbid Dreamer
Schizophrenic Worldhood
Major Symptoms
Traditional Interpretations
Anomalous Features of Schizophrenic Delusion
The Age of the World as View
Subjectivism and the Schizophrenic World
The Realm of the Imaginary
Epistemological Delusions
Two Objections
The Question of the “Real”
The Ontic and the Ontological
Schizophrenic Solipsism
Chapter 10: World Catastrophe
Rampant Subjectivism
Ontological Insecurity
The Invention of Morel
Dissolution of Ego Boundaries
Fichte and the Subjectivization of the All
Kafka’s “Description of a Struggle”
Chapter 11: Conclusion: Paradoxes of the Reflexive
The Doublet of Modern Thought
The Consciousness Machine
“A Metaphysical Illness”
Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism
The Romantic Critique
Two Modernisms: Postromantic and Hypermodernist
Philosophical Positions: Postromantic and Postmodernist
Anguish and Omnipotence
Epilogue: Schizophrenia and Modern Culture
The Prevalence of Schizophrenia
The Cross-Cultural Dimension
The Historical Dimension
Etiological Hypotheses
Appendix: Neurobiological Considerations
Biological Reductionism: Assumptions and Sources
General Critique of Neurobiological Reductionism
Specific Critique of Neurobiological Approaches
The Anterior-Posterior Dimension
The Cortical-Subcortical Dimension
The Laterality Hypothesis
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index
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