The aim of Language for those who have Nothing is to think
psychiatry through the writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. Using the
concepts of Dialogism and Polyphony, the Carnival and the
Chronotope, a novel means of navigating the clinical landscape is
developed. Bakhtin offers language as a social phenomenon and one
that is fully embodied. Utterances are shown to be alive and
enfleshed and their meanings realised in the context of given
social dimensions. The organisation of this book corresponds with
carnival practices of taking the high down to the low before
replenishing its meaning anew. Thus early discussions of official
language and the chronotope become exposed to descending levels of
analysis and emphasis. Patients and practitioners are shown to
occupy an entirely different spatio-temporal topography. These
chronotopes have powerful borders and it is necessary to use the
Carnival powers of cunning and deception in order to enter and to
leave them. The book provides an overview of practitioners who have
attempted such transgression and the author records his own
unnerving experience as a pseudopatient. By exploring the context
of psychiatry's unofficial voices: its terminology, jokes,
parodies, and everyday narratives, the clinical landscape is shown
to rely heavily on unofficial dialogues in order to safeguard an
official identity.
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