PPN: | 398132755 |
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Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
Erschienen: | New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2012 |
Vertrieb: | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (221 pages) |
Serie: | Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; v.14 |
Anmerkung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
ISBN: | 978-0-85745-459-1 ; 978-0-85745-458-4 |
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: | f Aufsatzsammlung Österreich-Ungarn Psychose Kultur Geschichte |
Abstract: | At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud's investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this 'territory' in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character's interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times. The travellers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers and royalty to tourists; in engaging with their histories, the contributors reveal the different ways in which madness was experienced and represented in 'Vienna 1900'. |
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