The 'telegraphic schizophrenic manner
Psychosis and a (non)sense of time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4356350 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael J Flexer (0000-0002-0616-4888, Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, Queen’s Building, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 444-468 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x20916109 |
| PMID | 32801484 |
| OpenAlex | W3022323605 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper reads Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five and Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time as stories of deictic temporal crises. It critically examines the texts, exploring their representations of mental time travel (MTT), and places them into dialectic with health sciences research on autonoesis and episodic memory deficits in people with lived experience of mental health disorders, particularly psychosis or 'schizophrenia'. The paper uses this dialectic to interrogate how atypical MTT is diagnostically and clinically rendered as pathological, and indicative of psychosis in particular. Similarly, it mines these fictional representations for the insights they might provide in attempting to understand the phenomenological reality of temporal disruptions for people with lived experience of psychosis. The paper moves on to incorporate first-person accounts from people with lived experience, and uses these to refine a Deleuzean static synthesis of time constructed around the traumatic Event and the Dedekind 'cut'. The paper concludes with some suggestions as to how the literary texts offer possible insights into the experience of people living with 'psychotic' temporal disruptions, and in particular how to re-invest their deictic relations to establish functioning fixity and stability of the self in time
Chronesthesia · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Deixis · Dialectic · Episodic memory · Epistemology · Linguistics · Lived experience · Mental health · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychosis · Psychotherapist · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Memory and consciousness.
Episodic Memory
Schizotypy and mental time travel
Memory, autonoetic consciousness, and the self
Deleuze's Third Synthesis of Time
Sense of place and place identity
Experiential places or places of experience? Place identity and place attachment as mechanisms for creating festival environment
Place identity, autobiographical memory and life path trajectories
Three presents
Feminism and Futurity
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |