The paradoxes of delusion : Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the schizophrenic mind / Louis A. Sass.

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Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1994.
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100 1 |a Sass, Louis Arnorsson. 
245 1 4 |a The paradoxes of delusion :  |b Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the schizophrenic mind /  |c Louis A. Sass. 
260 |a Ithaca, N.Y. :  |b Cornell University Press,  |c 1994. 
300 |a 1 online resource (xiv, 177 pages) 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-169) and index. 
505 0 |a 1. A Mind's Eye World -- 2. Enslaved Sovereign, Observed Spectator -- 3. A Vast Museum of Strangeness. 
520 |a Insanity - in clinical practice as in the popular imagination - is seen as a state of believing things that are not true and perceiving things that do not exist. Most schizophrenics, however, do not act as if they mistake their delusions for reality. In a work of uncommon insight and empathy, Louis A. Sass shatters conventional thinking about insanity by juxtaposing the narratives of delusional schizophrenics with the philosophical writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein. 
520 8 |a In the formative years of psychiatry Freud, Bleuler, and Jaspers all studied Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness as a model of psychotic thought. Sass provides a nuanced interpretation of Schreber's Memoirs in the context of Wittgenstein's analysis of philosophical solipsism. A dauntless critic of the illusions of philosophy, Wittgenstein likened the speculative excesses of traditional metaphysics to mental illness. Sass observes that many of the "intellectual diseases" that Wittgenstein discerned - diseases involving detachment from social existence and practical concerns, and exaggerated processes of abstraction and self-consciousness - have striking affinities with the symptoms of schizophrenia. Like the philosophical solipsist, the schizophrenic may define his or her own consciousness as the center of the universe - and may experience his or her delusional world as a product of that same consciousness. 
520 8 |a Schizophrenia, Sass demonstrates, is not the loss of rationality, but the far point in the trajectory of a consciousness turned in upon itself. The Paradoxes of Delusion will be necessary reading for anyone concerned with the preoccupations of modern philosophy and the realities of mental illness. 
600 1 0 |a Wittgenstein, Ludwig,  |d 1889-1951. 
600 1 0 |a Schreber, Daniel Paul,  |d 1842-1911. 
650 0 |a Schizophrenia. 
650 0 |a Psychiatry  |x Philosophy. 
650 0 |a Delusions. 
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