Dream Creativity And Madness In Nineteenth Century France

Author : Tony James
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191583872

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Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France by Tony James Pdf

This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. The relationship between the dream-state and madness is a key theme of nineteenth-century European, and specifically French, thought. The meaning of dreams and associated phenomena such as somnambulism, ecstasy, and hallucinations (including those induced by hashish) preoccupied writers, philosophers, and psychiatrists. In this path-breaking cross-disciplinary study, Tony James shows how doctors (such as Esquirol, Lélut, and Janet), thinkers (including Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (for example, Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud) grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called 'phenomena of sleep'. Were historical figures such as Socrates or Pascal in fact mad? Might dream be a source of creativity, rather than a merely subsidiary, 'automatic' function? What of lucid dreaming? By exploring these questions, Dreams, Madness, and Creativity in Nineteenth-Century France makes good a considerable gap in the history of pre-Freudian psychology and sheds new and fascinating light on the central French writers of the period.

Author : Leslie Atzmon
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781602351936

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Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design by Leslie Atzmon Pdf

The essays in VISUAL RHETORIC AND THE ELOQUENCE OF DESIGN foreground the rhetorical functions of design artifacts. Rhetoric, normally understood as verbal or visual messages that have a tactical persuasive objective—a speech that wants to convince us to vote for someone, or an ad that tries to persuade us to buy a particular product—becomes in Visual Rhetoric and the Eloquence of Design the persuasive use of a broad set of meta-beliefs. Designed objects are particularly effective at this second level of persuasion because they offer audiences communicative data that reflect, and also orchestrate, a potentially broad array of cultural concerns. Persuasion entails both the aesthetic form and material composition of any object.

Author : Francesca Brittan,Sarah Hibberd
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-08-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226837659

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Berlioz and His World by Francesca Brittan,Sarah Hibberd Pdf

A collection of essays and short object lessons on the composer Hector Berlioz, published in collaboration with the Bard Music Festival. Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) has long been a difficult figure to place and interpret. Famously, in Richard Wagner’s estimation, he hovered as a “transient, marvelous exception,” a composer woefully and willfully isolated. In the assessment of German composer Ferdinand Hiller, he was a fleeting comet who “does not belong in our musical solar system,” the likes of whom would never be seen again. For his contemporaries, as for later critics, Berlioz was simply too strange—and too noisy, too loud, too German, too literary, too cavalier with genre and form, and too difficult to analyze. He was, in many ways, a composer without a world. Berlioz and His World takes a deep dive into the composer’s complex legacy, tracing lines between his musical and literary output and the scientific, sociological, technological, and political influences that shaped him. Comprising nine essays covering key facets of Berlioz’s contribution and six short “object lessons” meant as conversation starters, the book reveals Berlioz as a richly intersectional figure. His very difficulty, his tendency to straddle the worlds of composer, conductor, and critic, is revealed as a strength, inviting new lines of cross-disciplinary inquiry and a fresh look at his European and American reception.

Author : Miranda Gill
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191562419

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Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Miranda Gill Pdf

What did it mean to call someone 'eccentric' in nineteenth-century Paris? And why did breaking with convention arouse such ambivalent responses in middle-class readers, writers, and spectators? From high society to Bohemia and the demi-monde to the madhouse, the scandal of nonconformism provoked anxiety, disgust, and often secret yearning. In a culture preoccupied by the need for order yet simultaneously drawn to the values of freedom and innovation, eccentricity continually tested the boundaries of bourgeois identity, ultimately becoming inseparable from it. This interdisciplinary study charts shifting French perceptions of the anomalous and bizarre from the 1830s to the fin de siècle, focusing on three key issues. First, during the July Monarchy eccentricity was linked to fashion, dandyism, and commodity culture; to many Parisians it epitomized the dangerous seductions of modernity and the growing prestige of the courtesan. Second, in the aftermath of the 1848 Revolution eccentricity was associated with the Bohemian artists and performers who inhabited 'the unknown Paris', a zone of social exclusion which middle-class spectators found both fascinating and repugnant. Finally, the popularization of medical theories of national decline in the latter part of the century led to decreasing tolerance for individual difference, and eccentricity was interpreted as a symptom of hidden insanity and deformity. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including etiquette manuals, fashion magazines, newspapers, novels, and psychiatric treatises, the study highlights the central role of gender in shaping perceptions of eccentricity. It provides new readings of works by major French writers and illuminates both well-known and neglected figures of Parisian modernity, from the courtesan and Bohemian to the female dandy and circus freak.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410344618

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A Study Guide for Edgar Allan Poe 's "A Dream within a Dream" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Daniel Pick,Lyndal Roper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135452148

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Dreams and History by Daniel Pick,Lyndal Roper Pdf

What is a dream? Dreams are universal, but their perceived significance and conceptual framework change over time. This book provides new perspectives on the history of dreams and dream interpretation in western culture and thought. Dreams and History contains important new scholarship on Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and subsequent psychoanalytical approaches from distinguished historians, psychoanalysts, historians of science and anthropologists. This collection celebrates and evaluates Freud's landmark intellectual production, whilst placing it in historical context. A modern view of psychoanalysis, it also discusses the controversial idea of the role of the external world on the shaping of unconscious mental contents. In highly accessible language it proceeds through a series of richly illustrated case studies, providing new source materials and debates about the causes, meanings and consequences of dreams, past and present: from Victorian anthropological exploration of ancient Greek dream sources to peasant interpretation of dream-life in communist Russia; from concepts of the dream in sixteenth-century England to visual images in nineteenth-century symbolist painting in France. Dreams and History will fascinate those interested not only in psychoanalysis and history, but also arts, culture, humanities and literature.

Author : Giorgia Morgese,Giovanni Pietro Lombardo,Hendrika Vande Kemp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030165307

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Histories of Dreams and Dreaming by Giorgia Morgese,Giovanni Pietro Lombardo,Hendrika Vande Kemp Pdf

In the late nineteenth century, dreams became the subject of scientific study for the first time, after thousands of years of being considered a primarily spiritual phenomenon. Before Freud and the rise of psychoanalytic interpretation as the dominant mode of studying dreams, an international group of physicians, physiologists, and psychiatrists pioneered scientific models of dreaming. Collecting data from interviews, structured observation, surveys, and their own dream diaries, these scholars produced a large body of early research on the sleeping brain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book uncovers an array of case studies from this overlooked period of dream scholarship. With contributors working across the disciplines of psychology, history, literature, and cultural studies, it highlights continuities and ruptures in the history of scientific inquiry into dreams.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191622281

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Madness by Roy Porter Pdf

This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac. The origins of current debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves.

Author : Mike Jay
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781907650147

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Emperors of Dreams by Mike Jay Pdf

Author : Eric Alliez, Professor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781783480692

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The Brain-Eye by Eric Alliez, Professor Pdf

English-language translation of a major work by French philosopher Eric Alliez, in which he offers a new perspective on critical problems in modern aesthetics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : French literature
ISBN : UVA:X006059138

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Nineteenth-century French Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andrea Goulet
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812202052

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Optiques by Andrea Goulet Pdf

Andrea Goulet takes the study of the novel into the realm of the visual by situating it in the context of nineteenth-century scientific and philosophical discourse about the nature of sight. She argues that French realism, detective fiction, science fiction, and literature of the fantastic from 1830 to 1910 reflected competition between two modern visual modes: a not-yet-outdated idealism and an empiricism that located truth in the body. More specifically, the book argues that key narrative forms of the nineteenth century were shaped by a set of scientific debates: between idealism and materialism in Honoré Balzac's Comédie humaine, between deduction and induction in early French detective fiction, and between objective vision and subjective vision in the "optogram" fictions of Jules Verne and others. Goulet aims to revise critical views on the modern novel in a number of ways. For instance, although many literary studies focus on the impact of cinema, photography, and painting, Optiques asserts the materialist bases of realism by establishing a genealogy of popular fictional genres as fundamentally optical, that is, as articulated according to bodily notions of sight. With its chronological and interdisciplinary scope, Optiques stands to contribute an important chapter to the study of literary modernity in its scientific context.

Author : David A. Guba Jr
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228002550

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Taming Cannabis by David A. Guba Jr Pdf

Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the continent, France enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. Perhaps surprisingly, France was once the epicentre of a global movement to medicalize cannabis, specifically hashish, in the treatment of disease. In Taming Cannabis David Guba examines how nineteenth-century French authorities routinely blamed hashish consumption, especially among Muslim North Africans, for behaviour deemed violent and threatening to the social order. This association of hashish with violence became the primary impetus for French pharmacists and physicians to tame the drug and deploy it in the homeopathic treatment of mental illness and epidemic disease during the 1830s and 1840s. Initially heralded as a wonder drug capable of curing insanity, cholera, and the plague, hashish was deemed ineffective against these diseases and fell out of repute by the middle 1850s. The association between hashish and Muslim violence, however, remained and became codified in French colonial medicine and law by the 1860s: authorities framed hashish as a significant cause of mental illness, violence, and anti-state resistance among indigenous Algerians. As the French government looks to reform the nation's drug laws to address the rise in drug-related incarceration and the growing popular demand for cannabis legalization, Taming Cannabis provides a timely and fascinating exploration of the largely untold and living history of cannabis in colonial France.

Author : J. Acquisto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137329288

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Thinking Poetry by J. Acquisto Pdf

This volume of essays seeks to establish a dialogue between poetry and philosophy where each could be said to read the other and announces important new paths for a reinvigorated study of lyric poetry in the decades to come.

Author : Roger Pearson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192843319

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The Beauty of Baudelaire by Roger Pearson Pdf

A substantial study of the works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) that provides fresh and detailed readings of his poetry in verse and prose.