While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of...
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While psychiatry and the neurosciences have dismissed the concept of neurosis as too vague for medical purposes, in recent years literary studies have adopted the term by virtue of its abstractness. This volume investigates the verbalization of neurosis in literary and cultural texts. As opposed to the medical diagnostics of neurosis in the individual, the contributions focus on the poetics of neurosis. They indicate how neuroses are still routinely romanticized or vilified, bent to suit aesthetic and narrative choices, and transfigured to illustrate unresolved cultural tensions
Munteán, László: The Lure of Space: Psychasthenia as Mnemonic Device in Michael Cunningham's Specimen Days
Furlanetto, Elena: Disintegrated Selves: Dissociative Disorders and Colonial Anxiety in Orhan Pamuk's The Black Book
Wegner, Jarula M.I.: Reading Rap with Fanon and Fanon with Rap: The Potential of Transcultural Recognition
De Waal, Ariane: Neoliberalism, Terror, and the Etiology of Neurotic Citizenship
Gür-Şeker, Derya: Pegida as Angstneurotiker: A Linguistic Analysis of Concepts of Fear in Right-wing Populist Discourses in German Online Media
Blue V, Alex: Ain't It Funny? Danny Brown, Black Subjectivity, and the Performance of Neurosis
Monaco, Angelo: Neurosis as Resilience in Jhumpa Lahiri's Diasporic Short Fictions
Roy, Sneharika: Allegories of Pathology: Post-War Colonial Expatriates and Imperial Neurosis in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Derek Walcott's Omeros
