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Elena Loizidou, "A Phantasmatic Moment: The Defence of In-Sanity", Law and Critique VIII/2 (1997), 115-140: The article problematises the defence of insanity. It re-visits and re-examines debates criticising the defence and it re-visits and re-examines how the defence defines the criminally insane. In its re-visitation it opens up the space to read the defence as a linguistic construction that frames the criminally insane offender. It reads the framing or the invention of the criminally insane as a process where criminal law or rather the language of criminal law abstracts the actions of the insane defender and relocates them into the empty category of the defective mind. This process is read as a misappropriation of the generic term of justice for it displaces it to the space of justice as law. In its conclusion it attempts to re-think this movement, this re-location and its possibilities; in other words it attempts to imagine how the actions of the criminally insane could be read by law otherwise, as potentialities of the accused's subjectivity, as a movement towards an ethical dimension of law. e-mail address: e.loizidou@lancaster.ac.uk

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