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Inaugural lecture of the International Francqui Chair (2022-2023) by Prof. Dr. Louis Sass. 

Title: Enigmas of Subjectivity: On the necessity of phenomenology for psychology and psychiatry

Prof. Louis Sass (1949) is Distinguished Professor of Clinical Psychology, Graduate School of

Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University, and a member of the New York

Institute for the Humanities. Sass has published on schizophrenia, phenomenological

psychopathology, psychoanalysis, and the thought of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Foucault—

as well as on modernism/postmodernism and other cultural issues. Sass has received various

awards for his contributions to theoretical and philosophical psychology as well as fellowships

from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute for Advanced Study in

Princeton NJ, and the Fulbright Foundation. He has been a visiting professor at the universities

of Chicago, Copenhagen, Paris, Colombia (Bogota), and Michoacan (Mexico), among others.

He is the author of The Paradoxes of Delusion: Wittgenstein, Schreber, and the Schizophrenic

Mind, and of Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and

Thought. A revised edition of Madness and Modernism (Oxford University Press) was awarded

the BMA: British Medical Association First Prize as best book in psychiatry for 2018.