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State of madness : psychiatry, literature, and dissent after Stalin

State of madness : psychiatry, literature, and dissent after Stalin

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개인저자
Reich, Rebecca.
서명 / 저자사항
State of madness : psychiatry, literature, and dissent after Stalin / Rebecca Reich.
발행사항
DeKalb, IL :   NIU Press,   c2018.  
형태사항
x, 283 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN
9780875807751 (hardcover) 0875807755 (hardcover) 9781609092337 (ebook) 1609092333 (ebook)
요약
What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric disource to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. This bold interdisciplinary study situates literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power--back cover.
내용주기
Introduction -- Soviet psychiatry and the art of diagnosis -- Thinking differently : the case of the dissidents -- Dialogue of selves : the case of Joseph Brodsky -- Creative madness : the case of Andrei Siniavskii -- Madness as mask : the case of Venedikt Erofeev -- Conclusion.
서지주기
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and index.
일반주제명
Literature and mental illness --Soviet Union. Psychiatry --Soviet Union --History. Mental illness --Soviet Union. Involuntary treatment --Soviet Union. Dissenters --Soviet Union. Psychiatry --Political aspects --Soviet Union. Psychiatry --history. History, 20th Century. Psychiatry in Literature.
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505 0 ▼a Introduction -- Soviet psychiatry and the art of diagnosis -- Thinking differently : the case of the dissidents -- Dialogue of selves : the case of Joseph Brodsky -- Creative madness : the case of Andrei Siniavskii -- Madness as mask : the case of Venedikt Erofeev -- Conclusion.
520 ▼a What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric disource to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. This bold interdisciplinary study situates literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power--back cover.
650 0 ▼a Literature and mental illness ▼z Soviet Union.
650 0 ▼a Psychiatry ▼z Soviet Union ▼x History.
650 0 ▼a Mental illness ▼z Soviet Union.
650 0 ▼a Involuntary treatment ▼z Soviet Union.
650 0 ▼a Dissenters ▼z Soviet Union.
650 0 ▼a Psychiatry ▼x Political aspects ▼z Soviet Union.
650 1 2 ▼a Psychiatry ▼x history.
650 2 2 ▼a History, 20th Century.
650 2 2 ▼a Psychiatry in Literature.
945 ▼a KLPA

소장정보

No. 소장처 청구기호 등록번호 도서상태 반납예정일 예약 서비스
No. 1 소장처 중앙도서관/서고6층/ 청구기호 362.19689 R347s 등록번호 111824714 도서상태 대출가능 반납예정일 예약 서비스 B M

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What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story The Emperor's New Clothes. In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.

--Benjamin Nathans, University of Pennsylvania "History of the Human Sciences"


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Soviet psychiatry and the art of diagnosis
Thinking differently : the case of the dissidents
Dialogue of selves : the case of Joseph Brodsky
Creative madness : the case of Andrei Siniavskii
Madness as mask : the case of Venedikt Erofeev.

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