Psychoanalysis, Psychiatry and Modernist Literature

by K Valentine, Kylie Valentine Dr, K. Valentine

Two developments during the modernist period - the consolidation of psychiatry as a medical speciality and the emergence of psychoanalysis - affected the representation of madness in literature. They also influenced the ways psychic distress was experienced, narrated, and understood. Literature and criticism in turn affected the formation of the modern psychological self. Presenting detailed readings of both canonical and non-canonical modernists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349507377
• ISBN13: 9781349507375
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"