Main description:

Francoise Davoine has been investigating psychotic phenomena and trauma for over thirty years, in collaboration with Jean-Max Gaudilliere. In this book, she draws on her literary background to take the reader on a fascinating voyage with an unexpected but most helpful guide: Don Quixote. In her work, Davoine approaches madness not as a symptom, but rather as a place, the place where the symbolic order and the social link have ruptured. She sees the psychotic as a seeker, engaged in a form of exploration into the nature and history of this place. This brings us to the seeker Don Quixote. Davoine takes the reader into the world of the knight-errant, to describe his adventures in a fascinating new light.Cervantes, the survivor of war trauma, captivity, and all manner of misfortunes, created this hero, first and foremost, so that the tale be told.

Contents:

ABOUT THE AUTHORWARNING TO THE READERCHAPTER ONEAndante! CHAPTER TWOCervantes, an old warrior CHAPTER THREEPTSD: post-traumatic son Don Quixote (the post-traumatic son of Cervantes)CHAPTER FOURFirst sally, first sessionsCHAPTER FIVESecond sally towards the psychotherapy of trauma CHAPTER SIXWidening of the field of war and beyond CHAPTER SEVENDon Quixote becomes a psychoanalyst in the Sierra Morena CHAPTER EIGHTRegenerating the social link CHAPTER NINEA sombre affair CHAPTER TENHistory makes its entrance CHAPTER ELEVENFarewell to arms CHAPTER TWELVEBella ciao! ciao! ciao!REFERENCES INDEX