Psychosis and Sexual Identity

David B. Allison is in the Department of Philosophy at State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mark S. Roberts in the Department of Philosophy at St. Joseph's College. Allen S. Weiss in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTIONEDITORS' NOTES Part I. Psychosis 1. Lacan and the Problem of PsychosisWilliam J. Richardson 2. Schreber's OtherAntonio Quinet 3. Writing and Madness: Schreber als SchreiberOctave Mannoni 4. Figures of DelusionJean-Francois Rabain 5. The Other as Muse: On the Ontology and Aesthetics of NarcissismAllen S. Weiss 6. The Institution of RotMichel de Certeau Part II. Sexual Identity 7. Paranoiac Fantasies: Sexual Difference, Homosexuality, Law of the FatherMicheline Enriquez 8. The Din of The Celestial Birds or Why I Crave to Become a WomanAlphonso Lingis 9. Vertiginous Sexuality: Schreber's Commerce With GodJean-Francois Lyotard 10. On President Schreber's Transsexual DelusionJanine Chasseguet-Smirgel 11. Schreber, Ladies and GentlemenPrado de Oliveira 12. The Pathogenesis of Creation or the Liberation of WomenOctave Mannoni Part III. The New Schreber Texts Introduction to the New Schreber TextsHan Israels The New Texts A. [Poem for the Silver Wedding Anniversary of His Sister Anna] (1889) B. [Poem About Swans Which His Mother Gave as a Gift to His Nephew Fritz Jung] (undated) C. [Christening Speech for a Granddaughter of His Sister Anna] (1904) D. [Poem for His Mother's Ninetieth Birthday] (1905) E. [Poem for the Fiftieth Birthday of His Wife] (1907) F. [Declaration About Schreber Societies] (1907) G. [Texts Written in the Leipzig-Dosen Mental Hospital] (1907-1910) ILLUSTRATIONSBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX

"Included are essays by some of the most interesting intellectual figures in France, such as Lyotard, Mannoni, and Andrade. Richardson leads the reader into Lacanian territory in a clear and fully comprehensible way. The Schreber case engenders one of Freud's most memorable literary excursions, and the essays in this collection provide startling and original insights. By treating the Schreber materials as text, new literary, critical and epistemological issues as well as psychological questions are opened up." — Edith Wyschogrod, Queens College"This is an important work, largely because it illuminates and makes accessible the larger issues of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis through the careful and very specific treatment of one groundbreaking case, that of Daniel Paul Schreber. I was entertained as well as instructed by this volume, which illustrates the diversity that psychoanalytical discourse has assumed. It is a major contribution to psychoanalytical theory." — Henry Sussman, State University of New York at Buffalo