Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth Century French Literature 1st Edition By Bernadette Hofer ISBN 0754666212 9780754666219
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ISBN 10: 0754666212
ISBN 13: 9780754666219
Author: Bernadette Hofer
Bernadette Höfer’s innovative and ambitious monograph argues that the epistemology of the Cartesian mind/body dualism, and its insistence on the primacy of analytic thought over bodily function, has surprisingly little purchase in texts by prominent classical writers. In this study Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine represent interconnections of body and mind that influence behaviour, both voluntary and involuntary, and that thus disprove the classical notion of the mind as distinct from and superior to the body. The author’s interdisciplinary perspective utilizes early modern medical and philosophical treatises, as well as contemporary medical compilations in the disciplines of psychosomatic medicine, neurobiology, and psychoanalysis, to demonstrate that these seventeenth-century French writers established a view of human existence that fully anticipates current thought regarding psychosomatic illness.
Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth Century French Literature 1st Table of contents:
1 The Relational Conception of Mind and Body in the Seventeenth Century,
2 Possession, Exorcism, and Madness: The Context of Jean-Joseph Surin’s Illness,
3 Melancholic Subversions in Molière’s Le misanthrope (1666) and Le malade imaginaire (1673),
4 Psychosomatic Fiction in Madame de Lafayette: The Enigma of Illness,
5 The Theater of Melancholy: Jean Racine’s Phèdre (1677)
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