Louis Sass, « Schizophrenia, the Very Idea: Reflections on the Self and Self-Consciousness »
The purpose of the talk is to consider schizophrenia—the very idea—from the perspective of phenomenological psychopathology. Louis Sass will discuss the distinctively paradoxical nature of schizophrenic symptoms and the problematic nature of the diagnostic concept—and will reflect on schizophrenia’s distinctive way of altering what seem to be core aspects of the human condition.
(Talk based on: Sass, L. & Feyaerts, J. (2024). Schizophrenia: the very idea: On self disorder, hyperreflexivity, and the diagnostic concept.” Schizophrenia Research, 267: 473-486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2024.03.022 )
Louis Sass, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University (New Jersey, U.S.A.), where he is also affiliated with the Comparative Literature Program and Center for Cognitive Science.
Sass has published on phenomenological psychopathology, psychoanalysis, cultural anthropology, and the thought of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Foucault. He is the author of Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought and of The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic Mind.
UCLouvain Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, P61 (entrée libre)
informations : valerie.aucouturier@uclouvain.be
