Psychoanalysis,Psychiatry and Modernist Literature

Psychoanalysis,Psychiatry and Modernist Literature
ISBN-10
1403919364
ISBN-13
9781403919366
Category
Social Science
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2003-01-22
Publisher
Springer
Author
K. Valentine

Description

Two developments during the modernist period - the consolidation of psychiatry as a medical speciality and the emergence of psychoanalysis - affected the representation of madness in literature. They also influenced the ways psychic distress was experienced, narrated, and understood. Literature and criticism in turn affected the formation of the modern psychological self. Presenting detailed readings of both canonical and non-canonical modernists like Virginia Woolf and Emily Holmes Coleman, this book argues that modernist madness can be understood as experience, clinical discourse and cultural representation.

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