Making the Case : : Narrative Psychological Case Histories and the Invention of Individuality in Germany, 1750-1800 / / Robert Leventhal.

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• VerfasserIn: Leventhal, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies , 25
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 409 p.)

One hundred years before Freud’s striking psychoanalytic case-histories, the narrative psychological case-history emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century in Germany as an epistemic genre (Gianna Pomata) that cut across the disciplines of medicine, philosophy, law, psychology, anthropolo...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• Contents
• List of Figures
• A Note on Translations
• Introduction
• 1. Historicizing the Psychological Case History
• 2. Theorizing the Psychological Case History
• 3. Disciplining the Human Soul: German Empirical Psychology in the Eighteenth Century from Christian Wolff to Kant
• 4. Ethnicity, Gender, Religion, and Madness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Germany: A Case History of Demonic Possession in Lower Saxony, 1744
• 5. The First Modern Psychological Case History: Marcus Herz’s Psychological Description of His Own Illness (1783) and the Construction of the Modern Soul
• 6. Friedrich Schiller: The Juridical-Psychological Case History as a Literary Work of Art
• 7. A Doctor’s Worst Fear: Marcus Herz’s Case History of Karl Philipp Moritz Etwas Psychologisch-Medizinisches. Moriz Krankengeschichte (1793)
• 8. The Case History, Therapeutics, and the Dietetics of the Soul: Aesthetics and Empirical Psychology in the Work of Karl Philipp Moritz
• 9. Towards an Epistemology of the Individual Case: Stance and Deviation in the Philosophy of Marcus Herz
• Conclusion: Becoming a Culture of Individual Cases
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author