Mental health symptoms in literature since modernism / / Nicolas Pierre Boileau

• Autore: Boileau Nicolas Pierre
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2023
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2023.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 pages)
• Disciplina: 809.93353
• Soggetto topico: Literature, Modern - 20th century; Literature - History and criticism; Medicine and the humanities; Mental health; Twentieth-Century Literature; Literary Criticism; Medical Humanities; Mental Health
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Abstract -- References -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Function of Symptoms of 'Mental Health': How Literature Is Situated in the Debate Between Cure and Care -- The Literary Diagnosis of Symptoms -- 'On Being Ill': On the Literary Apprehension of Illness -- Literature's Symptoms Are Not Sure Clinical Signs of Illness -- Psychoanalysis Versus Psychiatry: Ever-Growing Tensions over the Notion of Health -- Subjective Responses to Symptoms -- The Rupture of the Modernist Era -- The Limits of Social Interpretations of Psychological Disorder -- The Book's Premise and Structure -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part I: Doctors' Misdiagnoses: Symptoms, Meaning and Function -- Chapter 2: Symptomatic Silence: Situating the Subject in Mrs Dalloway -- The Sociopolitics of Mental Disorder: The Symptoms Generated by Society -- Septimus's Silence: A Sign of His Symptoms Being Unheard in Their Function -- A Queer Soldier: The Feminisation of Septimus or the Instability of Identification -- The Hole of Knowledge -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 3: Meaning and Interpretation: The Failure of the Psychiatric Method in Asylum by Patrick McGrath -- The Shortcomings of Psychiatry: The Failure of the Psychiatrist's Narrative -- Blinded by Knowledge: Subjective Creations Defeating Scientific Method -- Stella: The Failure of Love and the Other Jouissance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 4: From Physical Symptoms to Subjective Creations in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy -- The Limitations of Medical Treatment -- Freud, Hysteria and the End of the Repressive Hypothesis -- The Sexual as the Engine of Fiction -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part II: The Symptom and the Body: Discreet Signs of Psychological Disorders. ; Chapter 5: The Body as Dangerous Jouissance in The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing -- 'Playing with the Conventional Structures of the Novel' -- Excess and Overgrowth: Two Key Words of the Family's Shared Symptoms of Displacement -- The Body, Appetite and Jouissance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 6: AIDS, Manic-Depression and the Symptoms of the 1980s in The Line of Beauty -- Social Understanding of Illness: Inside, Outside, Marginal -- 'Proper Romance Is a Sham' (Alderson 2017: 141) -- Catherine's Sinthome (Lacan 2005) -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Part III: Voices, Contemporary Symptoms and Social Cohesion -- Chapter 7: Voices, Silence and the Body: Cusk's Modernist Explorations of Symptomatic Encounters in the Outline Trilogy (2014-2018) -- Finding One's Voice and Making the Readers Hear Voices -- Confessions, Silence and How Talking Cures, or How Much She Cares -- Desire, the Body and the Couple as Contemporary Symptoms -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 8: Ali Smith's Voices: Everyone Is Delirious -- Disconnection and 'Bare-ings' (SA1, 7): Loss and Gain -- Illness and the Body -- Art-Full: Saturation of Art as a Means of Connection -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Bibliography -- Bibliography Symptom -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Function of Symptoms in British Literature since Modernism looks at various ways of treating symptoms of psychological disorders in the literature of the long twentieth century. This book shows that literature can, in its questioning of commonly accepted views of this lived experience of psychic symptoms, help engender new theories about the functioning of subjective cases. Modernism emerged at about the same time as Freudian psychoanalysis did and the aim of this book is to also show that to a certain extent, Woolf preceded Freud in her exploration of the symptom and contributed to fashioning another approach that is now more common, especially in writers from the 1990s-onwards. Nicolas Pierre Boileau is Senior Lecturer at the Aix-Marseille University, France. Nicolas Pierre Boileau is Senior Lecturer at the Aix-Marseille University, France. Nicolas Pierre Boileau is Senior Lecturer at the Aix-Marseille University, France. Nicolas Pierre Boileau is Senior Lecturer at the Aix-Marseille University, France.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism
• ISBN: 3-031-37630-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910746288703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine, . 2634-6443