Description
An incredible publishing event: a philosopher draws on his own experience of madness as he takes readers on an unforgettble journey through the philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy.
In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis--and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of academia, allowing philosphers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madness--Kusters's preferred, non-medicalized term--coexist, one mirroring the other. Drawing on his own experience of madness--two episodes of psychosis, twenty years apart--Kusters argues that psychosis presents itself to the psychotic as an inescapable truth and reality.
Table of Contents
Preface to the English Edition xv
Preface xix
Introduction: Philosophy and Madness 1
I Cogitating Your Head Off
2 Inlooks and Outlooks 69
3 Outside Time 87
4 Inside Space 121
II Via Mystica Psychotica
5 Detachment 173
6 Demagination 195
7 Delanguization 213
8 Dethinking 233
III Light Mists
9 Pyramids of Light 283
10 White Fullness 301
11 The Infinity Trap 331
12 Absolutely Nothing 389
IV Crystal Fever 463
13 Paradoxes 467
14 Deliverance and Doom in Madness and Therapy 521
15 The Mad Plan in Story and System 577
16 Typology of Plans and Psychoplanatics 605
Acknowledgments 661
Notes 663
References 705
Index 723
