10 Hoarders and Scrappers

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity 1
6. Part I. Transformations in Social Experience and Subjectivity
7. Introduction 27
8. 1 The Vanishing Subject 34
9. 2 The Experiential Basis of Subjectivity 52
10. 3 How the Body Speaks 66
11. 4 Anthropological Observation and Self-Formation 98
12. Part II. Political Subjects
13. Introduction 121
14. 5 Hamlet in Purgatory 128
15. 6 America’s Transient Mental Illness 155
16. 7. Violence and the Politics of Remorse 179
17. Part III. Madness and Social Suffering
18. Introduction 237
19. 8. The Subject of Mental Illness 243
20. 9. The “Other” of Culture in Psychosis 273
21. 10 Hoarders and Scrappers 315
22. Part IV. Life Technologies
23. Introduction 343
24. 11. Whole Bodies, Whole Persons? 352
25. 12 The Medical Imaginary and the Biotechnical Embrace 362
26. 13 ”To Be Freed from the Infirmity of (the) Age” 381
27. 14 A Life 397
28. Epilogue: To Live with What Would Otherwise Be Unendurable 423
29. Index 447