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Biographical Alienation in Chronic Deliria

In memory of Michel Foucault

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Georges Lantéri-Laura  and
Martine Gros
Georges Lantéri-Laura
Affiliation:
E.H.E.S.S.- Hôpital Esquirol, Saint-Maurice
Martine Gros
Affiliation:
E.H.E.S.S.- Hôpital Esquirol, Saint-Maurice
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These few pages will attempt to analyze the relationships created in the chronically delirious person between himself and his own biography, such as he knows and has experienced it, to which he attaches himself and which dominates him without his knowing it. A few remarks to clarify our vocabulary before getting into the development of this question. We prefer the expression “chronic deliria“, in the plural, to the word “psychosis”, used in the singular. The former term is clinical, and therefore empirical, whereas the second derives from theories; and, especially, the former does not immediately imply a unity of process as opposed to the effective diversity of semiotic appearances. Moreover, the nominal adjective “psychotic“ runs the risk of both clandestinely bringing in hidden presuppositions and of re-establishing the old presumed unity with mental alienation, which had, indeed, been exorcised by J. P. Falret by the middle of the nineteenth century.

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Diogenes , Volume 35 , Issue 139 , September 1987 , pp. 104 - 126
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Copyright © 1987 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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