Journeys Into Madness : : Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire / / ed. by Gemma Blackshaw, Sabine Wieber.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beller, Steven,; Blackshaw, Gemma,; Heighton, Luke,; Howes, Geoffrey C.,; Imrie, Nicola,; Kuhn, Frank,; Lehninger, Anna,; Müller, Thomas,; Plumley, Gavin,; Steward, Jill,; Wieber, Sabine,
• HerausgeberIn: Blackshaw, Gemma,; Wieber, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Austrian and Habsburg Studies ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (222 p.)

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’.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1. The Mad Objects of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Journeys, Contexts and Dislocations in the Exhibition ‘Madness and Modernity’ -- 2. Solving Riddles: Freud, Vienna and the Historiography of Madness -- 3. Symphonies and Psychosis in Mahler’s Vienna -- 4. Creating an Appropriate Social Milieu: Journeys to Health at a Sanatorium for Nervous Disorders -- 5. Travel to the Spas: The Growth of Health Tourism in Central Europe, 1850–1914 -- 6. Vienna’s Most Fashionable Neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the Cult of Size Zero -- 7. Peter Altenberg: Authoring Madness in Vienna circa 1900 -- 8. ‘Hell Is Not Interesting, It Is Terrifying’: A Reading of the Madhouse Chapter in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities -- 9. Reason Dazzled: Klimt, Krakauer and the Eyes of the Medusa -- 10. Mapping the Sanatorium: Heinrich Obersteiner and the Art of Psychiatric Patients in Oberdöbling around 1900 -- 11. The Württemberg Asylum of Schussenried: A Psychiatric Space and Its Encounter with Literature and Culture from the ‘Outside’ -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- INDEX