ISBN:
9780857454591
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (221 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Austrian and Habsburg Studies v.14
DDC:
362.196/89009436
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Psychose
;
Kultur
;
Österreich-Ungarn
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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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