Incandescent Alphabets: Psychosis and the Enigma of Language

by Annie G. Rogers

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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.
  • ISBN13 9780429900594
  • Publish Date 12 June 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Routledge
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 224
  • Language English