This book deals with the possibility of an ontological and
epistemological account of the psychological category 'neurosis'.
Intertwining thoughts from German idealism, Continental philosophy and
psychology, the book shows how neurosis precedes and exists
independently from human experience and lays the foundations for a
non-essentialist, non-rational theory of neurosis; in cognition, in
perception, in linguistics and in theories of object-relations and
vitalism. The personal essays collected in this volume examine such
issues as assimilation, the philosophy of neurosis, aneurysmal
philosophy, and the connection between Hegel and Neurosis, among others.
The volume establishes the connection between a now redundant
psycho-analytic term and an extremely progressive discipline of
Continental philosophy and Speculative realism.