| Description |
1 online resource (x, 283 pages) |
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Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine |
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Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine.
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (ProQuest Ebook Central platform, viewed May 22, 2024) |
| Subject |
Literature and mental illness.
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Mental illness in literature.
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Fiction -- History and criticism.
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Fiction
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Literature and mental illness
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Mental illness in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Literary criticism.
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Critiques littéraires.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031376306 |
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3031376307 |
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