The moral psychotic: madness as excess.

Critical Psychology | October 1, 2006| | Copyright

This paper presents an alternative tradition of politicising madness by understanding madness as an excess rather than a trauma. Excess, here, ultimately refers to the excessive jouissance of the Lacanian psychotic whose clinical structure this paper will outline, and it connotes a boundless intensity. The emphasis in this tradition is not upon madness as a trauma to be exorcised but rather as a way of being in its own right which is intelligible within its own terms and has insightful possibilities.

This tradition is grounded in the work of R.D. Laing which ...

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