Contents
Acknowledgments;
List of Contributors;
Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity;
PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS IN SOCIAL EXPERIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY;
1. The Vanishing Subject: The Many Faces of Subjectivity;
2. The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity: How Individuals Change in the Context of Societal Transfo;
3. How the Body Speaks: Illness and the Lifeworld among the Urban Poor;
4. Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation;
PART II. POLITICAL SUBJECTS;
5. Hamlet in Purgatory;
6. America’s Transient Mental Illness: A Brief History of the Self-Traumatized Perpetrator;
7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse: Lessons from South Africa;
PART III. MADNESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING;
8. The Subject of Mental Illness: Psychosis, Mad Violence, and Subjectivity in Indonesia;
9. The “Other” of Culture in Psychosis: The Ex-Centricity of the Subject;
10. Hoarders and Scrappers: Madness and the Social Person in the Interstices of the City;
PART IV. LIFE TECHNOLOGIES;
11. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? Cultural Studies, Psychoanalysis, and Biology;
12. The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace: Subjective Experiences of Clinical Scientist;
13. “To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age”: Subjectivity, Life-Sustaining Treatment, and;
14. A Life: Between Psychiatric Drugs and Social Abandonment;
Epilogue. To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable: Return(s) to Subjectivities;
Index