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Continental
Philosophy of
Psychiatry
The Lure of Madness
Alastair Morgan
Continental Philosophy of Psychiatry
Alastair Morgan
Continental
Philosophy of
Psychiatry
The Lure of Madness
Alastair Morgan
University of Manchester
Manchester, UK
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For Marion, with all my love
Preface
vii
viii Preface
Above all, thanks to my wife Marion for all her love, intellectual advice,
support and encouragement with this project and with so much more.
This book would not have been produced without her help and is dedi-
cated to her.
Alastair Morgan
Contents
1 Introduction 1
5 Vital Contact 71
6 Ipseity 91
xi
xii Contents
7 The Body107
8 Being-in-the-World131
11 “Beware, Marcuse”!201
Index415
1
Introduction
life. In the same year, 1911, Freud turned his attention to psychosis by
writing his text on the Schreber case. He argued that psychoanalysis could
only focus on neurosis because transference is impossible with people
experiencing psychosis. The new hermeneutic of psychoanalysis, based
on a deep attention and attentiveness to unconscious and irrational ele-
ments within the psyche, could not communicate with madness.
I emphasise this as an experience of philosophical failure. One could say
that it became a kind of neurotic experience for philosophy; something
that lingered and could not be extinguished from thought. It is a failure
that inaugurates a tradition not by resolving the problem but by dwelling
within the paradox; how can reason understand that which is beyond
reason? This failure launched a tradition that continued for much of the
twentieth century yet fades by the turn of the century; a tradition that
attempted to understand madness as another world.
Continental Philosophy
Simon Glendinning, in his argument against the idea of continental phi-
losophy lays down a gauntlet for any writer engaging in a project such as
this. Glendinning (2006: 13) writes that, “… there is no such thing as the
tradition of continental philosophy”. He argues that continental philoso-
phy should be considered as the construction of its other by analytic
philosophy. The only thing that unifies the so-called tradition of conti-
nental philosophy is that it contains everything that analytic philosophy
wants to disavow as not properly philosophical. Those writing in the
“continental” tradition should have the courage of their convictions and
stop applying labels that have little or no meaning.
Despite this anxiety, I think there is a specific tradition of continental
philosophy of psychiatry in the twentieth century and I hope to articulate
this tradition in the pages that follow. As Kearney (1994: 1) writes, this
tradition may be more a “patchwork of diverse strands” than a “seamless
fabric”, but I demonstrate a series of overlapping themes that do cohere
across a range of philosophers and psychiatrists working in the continen-
tal tradition.
1 Introduction 3
conditions for the tradition I outline in this book lie in the asylum and in
a pathologizing gaze. As is apparent from my comments above, this does
not mean that this tradition should be forgotten once the asylum era has
been definitively surpassed. However, there are central ethical and episte-
mological issues that need to be confronted in any reckoning with this
tradition.
IV.
V.