Gould, Wren Ariel MacKinnon, Kinnon R Lam, June Sing Hong Enxuga, Gabriel Abramovich, Alex Ross, Lori E
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Culture, medicine and psychiatry
Emerging evidence suggests that transgender individuals are more likely than cisgender peers to receive a diagnosis with a primary mental disorder. Attributions of madness, though, may serve the social function of dismissing and discrediting transgender individual's self-perceptions. The narratives of individuals who stop or reverse an initial gend...
Favre, Valérie
Throughout the past few decades Virginia Woolf’s so-called madness and suicide have highly influenced the public and critical reception of her life and work and have framed—in the various senses of that word—Virginia Woolf as a figure of the madwoman in the river. But what of Woolf’s feminist reception? How do feminist critics engage with that spec...
Fernandez, Juan Manuel
The novel La ciudad de los locos by the Argentine writer Juan José de Soiza Reilly, before being published as a book in 1914, was published as a serial in the magazine Caras y Caretas in Buenos Aires, between 1907 and 1912, an unknown fact that completely resignifies it. In this serialized novel, Nietzschean nihilism, eugenic thought, the macabre p...
Ortigosa Peña, Andrés
In this research it is shown that Hegel followed the psychiatric trend of unitary psychosis (Einheitpsychose), according to which there is only one mental illness that branches into species. Then, a glimpse of Hegel's theory of insanity is given. Finally, several arguments are made as to why Hegel's theory of madness necessarily rests on the idea o...
Araújo, Rosanne Bezerra de Xavier, Wiebke Röben de Alencar
Este artigo tem como objetivo estudar A tragédia de Hamlet, príncipe da Dinamarca, observando como as temáticas razão e loucura são relevantes na estruturação da peça, no desenvolvimento da tragédia e na formação e singularidade dos personagens Hamlet e Ofélia. Nosso estudo tem como foco não somente o príncipe, mas também a figura feminina e sua re...
Costa, Gleid Ângela dos Anjos Santos, Dayse Rodrigues dos
From contemporary narrative and the space of comprehensive freedom between reader and text perspective, we aim to present a different interpretation of Uma História de Borboletas, by Caio Fernando Abreu (2001) short story. To carry it out vertically and consistently, we structured our constructs on the theoretical contributions of Monique Plaza (19...
Chaput, Emmanuel
In this paper, I claim that to understand Hegel’s theory of psychiatric treatment, we must frame the relation between the psychiatrist and her patient using Hegel’s concept of genius as developed in the Anthropology section of the Encyclopedia. As I argue, this notion of genius is both complex and ambiguous, since Hegel presents examples both of go...
Advani, Anurag
This dissertation explores how “madness” was conceptualized and perceived in early modern South Asia between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Notions of insanity were constantly being reformulated in the Mughal Empire and Deccan Sultanates, as Indo-Iranian physician-scholars (hakims) experimented with extant Greco-Arabic (Unani) and Indic (A...
Prestifilippo, Agustín Lucas
One of the most enigmatic phases that the subjective spirit goes through in its confrontation with the first externalities of nature is represented by madness. In this paper I am interested in delving into the "particular difficulty" that this phenomenon acquires in the transitions of the spirit towards its liberation. To this end, I will proceed i...
Akakpo, Komi
This thesis offers a multidisciplinary reading of the madness of dictatorial regimes in Nuruddin Farah’s Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Matigari and Wizard of the Crow. Indeed, we see that in these novels, the postcolonial world is governed by contradictions and paradoxes resulting from dictators’ abusive u...
