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The Witness in the Machine: Mad, Mad World.

The Witness in the Machine: Mad, Mad World.

Bastiani, Wilfred-Leonard

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ISBN10: 1291786996
ISBN13: 9781291786996
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: Feb 26 2026
Pages: 66
Weight: 0.12
Height: 0.14 Width: 4.25 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
When a French woman placed Daniel Paul Schreber's memoir in my hands at a Schonfield gathering, it felt less like a recommendation than a summons. Schreber-judge, patient, witness-writes from the fault line where psychiatry, law, and metaphysics compete for custody of the self. This book follows that fault line. With Stirner, Kafka, Freud, Lacan, and Melanie Klein, I track how institutions and interpretations can become invisible tribunals-sorting a living person into a file. Then I pivot toward another possibility: coherence without coercion. Drawing on Spirit, Self as a Mosaic, Ontological Monism, Sentient Witness, and Reclaim of the Sovereign Self, I build a practical ethics of inner jurisdiction: recognition before evaluation, testimony before translation, remedy that increases agency. An inquiry into madness, meaning, and modern power-ending with a single question: who gets to define reality when your inner life speaks back?

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