Monomania
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Monomania
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Author : Marina Van Zuylen
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-31
Monomania written by Marina Van Zuylen and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
"This book is about the obsessive strategies people use to keep the arbitrary out of their lives; it is about the fanaticism and intolerance linked to their ideas of perfection and permanence.... Those readers who have brushed against the dangers of the idée fixe, who have come close to surrendering to something or someone diabolically seductive or coercive, will recognize in these characters their own encounter with a dangerously systematized world."—From the introduction. Monomania explores the cultural prominence of the idée fixe in Western Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Marina van Zuylen revives the term monomania to explore the therapeutic attributes of obsession. She introduces us to artists and collectors, voyeurs and scholars, hypochondriacs and melancholics, whose lives are run by debilitating compulsions that may become powerful weapons against the tyranny of everyday life. In van Zuylen's view, there is a productive tension between disabling fixations and their curative powers; she argues that the idée fixe has acted as a corrective for the multiple disorders of modernity. The authors she studies—Charles Baudelaire, Sophie Calle, Elias Canetti, George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann among them—embody or set in motion different manifestations of this monomaniacal imperative. Their protagonists or alter egos live more intensely, more meaningfully, because of the compulsive pressures they set up for themselves. Monomania shows that transforming life into art, or at least into the artful, drives out the anxiety of the void and puts in its place something so orderly and meaningful that it can take on the aura of a religion.
Monomania A Satire In Reference To The Trial Of Mcnaughten For The Murder Of Mr Drummond
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Author : Dry nurse pseud
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1843
Monomania A Satire In Reference To The Trial Of Mcnaughten For The Murder Of Mr Drummond written by Dry nurse pseud and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1843 with Medical jurisprudence categories.
Medical And Surgical Reporter
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
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Report Of The Proceedings And Arguments In The Probate Court Of The City And County Of San Francisco State Of California
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Author : California. Probate Court (San Francisco)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
Report Of The Proceedings And Arguments In The Probate Court Of The City And County Of San Francisco State Of California written by California. Probate Court (San Francisco) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with categories.
The Dsm 5 In Perspective
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Author : Steeves Demazeux
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-02-28
The Dsm 5 In Perspective written by Steeves Demazeux and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-28 with Medical categories.
Since its third edition in 1980, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association has acquired a hegemonic role in the health care professions and has had a broad impact on the lay public. The publication in May 2013 of its fifth edition, the DSM-5, marked the latest milestone in the history of the DSM and of American psychiatry. In The DSM-5 in Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on the Psychiatric Babel, experts in the philosophy of psychiatry propose original essays that explore the main issues related to the DSM-5, such as the still weak validity and reliability of the classification, the scientific status of its revision process, the several cultural, gender and sexist biases that are apparent in the criteria, the comorbidity issue and the categorical vs. dimensional debate. For several decades the DSM has been nicknamed “The Psychiatric Bible.” This volume would like to suggest another biblical metaphor: the Tower of Babel. Altogether, the essays in this volume describe the DSM as an imperfect and unachievable monument – a monument that was originally built to celebrate the new unity of clinical psychiatric discourse, but that ended up creating, as a result of its hubris, ever more profound practical divisions and theoretical difficulties.
Journal Of Psychological Medicine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
Journal Of Psychological Medicine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with Medical jurisprudence categories.
The Medical Jurisprudence Of Insanity
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Author : John Hutton Balfour Browne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875
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Transactions Of The International Medical Congress
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Author : International Medical Congress, ltd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Transactions Of The International Medical Congress written by International Medical Congress, ltd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Medicine categories.
Material Ambitions
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Author : Rebecca Richardson
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Material Ambitions written by Rebecca Richardson and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
What the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism. Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians valorized personal ambition in ways that previous generations had not. In Material Ambitions, Rebecca Richardson explores this phenomenon in light of the under-studied reception history of Samuel Smiles's 1859 publication, Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance. A compilation of vignettes about captains of industry, artists, and inventors who persevered through failure and worked tirelessly to achieve success in their respective fields, Self-Help links individual ambition to the growth of the nation. Contextualizing Smiles's work in a tradition of Renaissance self-fashioning, eighteenth-century advice books, and inspirational biography, Richardson argues that the burgeoning self-help genre of the Victorian era offered a narrative structure that linked individual success with collective success in a one-to-one relationship. Advocating for a broader cultural account of the ambitious hero narrative, Richardson argues that reading these biographies and self-help texts alongside fictional accounts of driven people complicates the morality tale that writers like Smiles took pains to invoke. In chapters featuring the works of Harriet Martineau, Dinah Craik, Thackeray, Trollope, and Miles Franklin, Richardson demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition by suggesting where it runs up against the limits of an individual's energy and ability, where it turns into competition, or where it risks upsetting a socio-ecological system of finite resources. The upward mobility plots of John Halifax, Gentleman or Vanity Fair suggest the dangers of zero-sum thinking, particularly evidenced by contemporary preoccupations with Malthusian and Darwinian discourses. Intertwining the methodologies of disability studies and ecocriticism, Material Ambitions persuasively unmasks the longstanding myth that ambitious individualism can overcome disadvantageous systematic and structural conditions.
Edinburgh Medical And Surgical Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
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