Title Dream, creativity, and madness in nineteenth-century France / Tony James

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 304 pages) Summary Presents an analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. This book shows how doctors thinkers, and writers grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called 'phenomena of sleep' Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and index Notes Print version record Subject Dreams -- France -- History -- 19th century Creative ability -- France -- History -- 19th century Mental illness -- France -- History -- 19th century Hallucinations and illusions -- History -- 19th century Psychology and literature -- History -- 19th century Hallucinations and illusions. Medicine in literature. Mental illness. Medicine -- History. Perceptual disorders. Imagination. History. Literature, Modern. Literature. Sleep. Cognition. Humanities. Psychophysiology. Neurologic manifestations of general diseases. Human information processing. Nervous system -- Diseases. Diseases. Hallucinations Medicine in Literature Dreams Mental Disorders History of Medicine History, 19th Century Perceptual Disorders Imagination History History, Modern 1601- Literature Sleep Psychiatry and Psychology Cognition Neurobehavioral Manifestations Humanities Psychophysiology Neurologic Manifestations Mental Processes Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms. Psychological Phenomena and Processes. Signs and Symptoms Nervous System Diseases Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms. Disease History, Early Modern 1451-1600 mental disorders. history of medicine. imagination. history (discipline) cognition. humanities. illness. disease. Sleep. Psychophysiology. Perceptual disorders. Neurologic manifestations of general diseases. Nervous system -- Diseases. Medicine in literature. Medicine. Literature, Modern. Literature. Imagination. Humanities. Human information processing. History. Diseases. Cognition. Creative ability. Dreams. Hallucinations and illusions. Mental illness. Psychology and literature. Parapsychology & Occult Sciences. Social Sciences. France. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191672873 0191672874

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