Psychic empire : literary modernism and the clinical state / Cate I. Reilly.

"Between 1880 and 1920 in Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Russia the mind sciences (psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience) began to first take shape. These new demographically applicable studies of the mind were soon integrated into the modern nation-states. In Psychic Empire, Cate Rei...

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Main Author: Reilly, Cate I. (Author)
Other title:Literary modernism and the clinical state
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2024]
Series:Modernist latitudes.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. After analysis : literary modernism and diagnostic reading
  • Büchner's brain : on psychopower
  • Before the primal scene : the wolf-man between Sigmund Freud and Emil Kraepelin
  • Schreber's law : psychotic, reading
  • Expressionist Weltrevolution and psychopolitical worlding
  • The economic hypothesis : soul markets of Soviet fiction
  • Monodrama as mass spectacle : the Soviet self on stage
  • Something wrong with vero : neural landscapes of the Argentine Dirty War
  • Afterword. An aesthetic education in the wake of the neurocognitive turn.