Mental Health Symptoms in Literature since Modernism Les symptômes de la maladie mentale dans la littérature depuis le modernisme
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Modernism Virginia Woolf Psychoanalysis Medical Humanities Symptoms and symptom managementSujets proches
Semiology (Medicine) Diseases--Symptoms Symptomatology Signs, Clinical Clinical signs Semiology Symptomology Signs and symptoms Disease symptomsCiter ce document
Nicolas Pierre Boileau, « Les symptômes de la maladie mentale dans la littérature depuis le modernisme », HAL-SHS : littérature, ID : 10.1007/978-3-031-37630-6
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‘To link madness and writing is to perpetuate one of the greatest com- monplaces of our modernity’ (Cape 2011: 7). One of the reasons for lit- erature’s interest in madness might be found in the symptom of psychic disorder itself, which can be conceived as something else than a ‘cyphered message’ (Zizek, Enjoy your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out, Routledge, London, 1992: 175). According to Lacan, the symptom is also something ineffable, unattainable, which never ceases to remain unwritten (Lacan, Autres écrits. Éditions du seuil, “Champ freudien”, 2001: 559). Literature itself has long chronicled the state of those who fail to go through life without troubles and disorders (Mullini, Littérature et Pathologie. L’imaginaire du texte, Paris, 1989). The question I want to raise in this work is how, thanks to the Modernist forays into the workings of the mind, literature produces, instead of simply reproducing, symptoms, how the symptoms produced are decoded or made decipherable in a way that medicine leaves out, but also how the represented illness defies cure and care and resists the attempts currently made to erase symptoms through biomedi- cine, instead of working from and around them.