Poetic Imagination And Insanity
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Author |
: Wilhelm Dilthey |
Publisher |
: Gegensatz Press |
Total Pages |
: 54 |
Release |
: 2023-12-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781621308478 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1621308472 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poetic Imagination and Insanity by : Wilhelm Dilthey
In 1886, in a speech to a group of military physicians, the prominent German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911) rejected the traditional connection between artistic genius and inspired insanity. Here is an English translation of this speech, together with an extensive commentary, by Eric v.d. Luft.
Author |
: Frederick Burwick |
Publisher |
: Penn State Press |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 2010-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780271042961 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0271042966 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination by : Frederick Burwick
Author |
: Daniel Nettle |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198605005 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198605003 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Strong Imagination by : Daniel Nettle
Rates of mental illness are hugely elevated in the families of poets, writers and artists, suggesting that the same genes, the same temperaments, and the same imaginative capacities are at work in insanity and in creative ability. Writing for the general reader, Daniel Nettle explores the nature of mental illness, the biological mechanisms that underlie it, and its link to creative genius.
Author |
: James Whitehead |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198733706 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198733704 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Madness and the Romantic Poet by : James Whitehead
Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?
Author |
: Milton Rokeach |
Publisher |
: New York Review of Books |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2011-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781590173848 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1590173848 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Three Christs of Ypsilanti by : Milton Rokeach
On July 1, 1959, at Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, the social psychologist Milton Rokeach brought together three paranoid schizophrenics: Clyde Benson, an elderly farmer and alcoholic; Joseph Cassel, a failed writer who was institutionalized after increasingly violent behavior toward his family; and Leon Gabor, a college dropout and veteran of World War II. The men had one thing in common: each believed himself to be Jesus Christ. Their extraordinary meeting and the two years they spent in one another’s company serves as the basis for an investigation into the nature of human identity, belief, and delusion that is poignant, amusing, and at times disturbing. Displaying the sympathy and subtlety of a gifted novelist, Rokeach draws us into the lives of three troubled and profoundly different men who find themselves “confronted with the ultimate contradiction conceivable for human beings: more than one person claiming the same identity.”
Author |
: Kay Redfield Jamison |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 562 |
Release |
: 2018-02-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307744616 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307744612 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire by : Kay Redfield Jamison
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the English language and changed the public discourse about private matters. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, and in the process created a new and arresting language for madness. Here Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell’s story, illuminating not only the relationships between mania, depression, and creativity but also how Lowell’s illness and treatment influenced his work (and often became its subject). A bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was—both despite and because of mental illness—a passionate, original observer of the human condition.
Author |
: Daniel Berthold-Bond |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 1995-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791425053 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791425053 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hegel's Theory of Madness by : Daniel Berthold-Bond
This book shows how an understanding of the nature and role of insanity in Hegel's writing provides intriguing new points of access to many of the central themes of his larger philosophic project. Berthold-Bond situates Hegel's theory of madness within the history of psychiatric practice during the great reform period at the turn of the eighteenth century, and shows how Hegel developed a middle path between the stridently opposed camps of "empirical" and "romantic" medicine, and of "somatic" and "psychical" practitioners. A key point of the book is to show that Hegel does not conceive of madness and health as strictly opposing states, but as kindred phenomena sharing many of the same underlying mental structures and strategies, so that the ontologies of insanity and rationality involve a mutually illuminating, mirroring relation. Hegel's theory is tested against the critiques of the institution of psychiatry and the very concept of madness by such influential twentieth-century authors as Michel Foucault and Thomas Szasz, and defended as offering a genuinely reconciling position in the contemporary debate between the "social labeling" and "medical" models of mental illness.
Author |
: Emily Baum |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2018-11-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226558240 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022655824X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Invention of Madness by : Emily Baum
Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset of war with Japan in 1937, revealing the complex and convoluted ways in which “madness” was transformed in the Chinese imagination into “mental illness.” Focusing on typically marginalized historical actors, including municipal functionaries and the urban poor, The Invention of Madness shifts our attention from the elite desire for modern medical care to the ways in which psychiatric discourses were implemented and redeployed in the midst of everyday life. New meanings and practices of madness, Baum argues, were not just imposed on the Beijing public but continuously invented by a range of people in ways that reflected their own needs and interests. Exhaustively researched and theoretically informed, The Invention of Madness is an innovative contribution to medical history, urban studies, and the social history of twentieth-century China.
Author |
: James Whitehead |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 437 |
Release |
: 2017-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191081897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191081892 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Madness and the Romantic Poet by : James Whitehead
Madness and the Romantic Poet examines the longstanding and enduringly popular idea that poetry is connected to madness and mental illness. The idea goes back to classical antiquity, but it was given new life at the turn of the nineteenth century. The book offers a new and much more complete history of its development than has previously been attempted, alongside important associated ideas about individual genius, creativity, the emotions, rationality, and the mind in extreme states or disorder - ideas that have been pervasive in modern popular culture. More specifically, the book tells the story of the initial growth and wider dissemination of the idea of the 'Romantic mad poet' in the nineteenth century, how (and why) this idea became so popular, and how it interacted with the very different fortunes in reception and reputation of Romantic poets, their poetry, and attacks on or defences of Romanticism as a cultural trend generally - again leaving a popular legacy that endured into the twentieth century. Material covered includes nineteenth-century journalism, early literary criticism, biography, medical and psychiatric literature, and poetry. A wide range of scientific (and pseudoscientific) thinkers are discussed alongside major Romantic authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Hazlitt, Lamb, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Keats, Byron, and John Clare. Using this array of sources and figures, the book asks: was the Romantic mad genius just a sentimental stereotype or a romantic myth? Or does its long popularity tell us something serious about Romanticism and the role it has played, or has been given, in modern culture?
Author |
: Tove Ditlevsen |
Publisher |
: Picador |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2022-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781250838209 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1250838207 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Faces by : Tove Ditlevsen
From Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience. Copenhagen, 1968. Lise, a children’s book writer and married mother of three, is increasingly haunted by disembodied faces and voices. She is convinced that her husband, already extravagantly unfaithful, will leave her. Most of all, she is scared that she will never write again. Yet as she descends into a world of pills and hospitals, she begins to wonder—is insanity really something to be feared, or does it bring a kind of freedom?