Journeys Into Madness : : Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire /

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

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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 p...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (222 p.)
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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

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