The 'telegraphic schizophrenic manner': Psychosis and a (non)sense of time.
dc.contributor.author | Flexer, MJ | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-09-07T09:11:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-05-07 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-09-06T15:46:42Z | |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Wellcome Trust | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 444-468 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X20916109 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 205400/A/16/Z | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/130724 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | SAGE Publications | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32801484 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © The Author(s) 2020. Open access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). | en_GB |
dc.subject | Deleuzean Event | en_GB |
dc.subject | Kurt Vonnegut | en_GB |
dc.subject | Marge Piercy | en_GB |
dc.subject | Psychosis | en_GB |
dc.subject | Tralfamadorean time | en_GB |
dc.subject | autonoesis and mental time travel | en_GB |
dc.subject | deixis | en_GB |
dc.subject | episodic memory | en_GB |
dc.subject | semiotics | en_GB |
dc.title | The 'telegraphic schizophrenic manner': Psychosis and a (non)sense of time. | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2022-09-07T09:11:41Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0961-463X | |
exeter.place-of-publication | England | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1461-7463 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Time & Society | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-05-07 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2022-09-07T09:07:14Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2022-09-07T09:11:51Z | |
refterms.panel | D | en_GB |
refterms.dateFirstOnline | 2020-05-07 |
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