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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
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
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
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
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
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