Enverneity: A close reading of the Blair family case study in Laing and Esterson's Sanity, Madness and the Family. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bristow, Daniel
• Is Part Of: European journal of psychotherapy, counselling, and health. Volume 23:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 70
• Page End: 84
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Enverneity -- R. D. Laing -- Aaron Esterson -- schizophrenia -- temporality -- families; R. D. Laing -- Aaron Esterson -- Schizophrenia -- Temporality -- Families; Enverneidad -- R. D. Laing -- Aaron Esterson -- Esquizofrenia -- Temporalidad -- Familias; Enverneity -- R. D. Laing -- Aaron Esterson -- Schizofrenia -- Temporalità -- Famiglie; Enverneity -- R. D. Laing -- Aaron Esterson -- Schizophrénie -- Temporalité -- Familles; ΛΈΞΕΙΣ-ΚΛΕΙΔΙΆΔιανυκτέρευση -- R. D. Laing -- Aaron Esterson -- Σχιζοφρένεια -- χρονικότητα -- Οικογένειες; Counseling -- Periodicals; Counseling -- Europe -- Periodicals; Psychotherapy -- Periodicals; Psychotherapy -- Europe -- Periodicals; 616.891405
• DOI: 10.1080/13642537.2021.1881136
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-2537

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper looks afresh at the Blair family case study in R. D. Laing and Aaron Esterson's Sanity, Madness and the Family; primarily, through adaptation of an earlier-elaborated concept of the author's, that of 'enverneity', and by bringing it specifically to bear on temporality and relation to time. This article thus sets out a theory of 'enverneity', which is used to uncover socio-psychical disjunctions that can go on to enforce repressions and foreclosures within specific cultural and familial settings. It draws on the concept to produce a theory in which devices enabling the elision of structural forces (particularly that of patriarchal dominance in this instance) can be uncovered, and the undoing of which, it is hoped, may be further worked towards.