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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boileau, Nicolas Pierre, author.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Palgrave studies in literature, science, and medicine

Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature and mental illness.

Mental illness in literature.

Fiction--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 283 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]

Contents:

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

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

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

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)

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 27, 2023).

ISBN:

9783031376306

3031376307

Publisher Number:

99994858311

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.