My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia WoolfTransaction Publishers, 2011. 12. 31. - 169페이지 The vast literature on Virginia Woolf's life, work, and marriage falls into two groups. A large majority is certain that she was mentally ill, and a small minority is equally certain that she was not mentally ill but was misdiagnosed by psychiatrists. In this daring exploration of Woolf's life and work, Thomas Szasz--famed for his radical critique of psychiatric concepts, coercions, and excuses--examines the evidence and rejects both views. Instead, he looks at how Virginia Woolf, as well as her husband Leonard, used the concept of madness and the profession of psychiatry to manage and manipulate their own and each other's lives. Do we explain achievement when we attribute it to the fictitious entity we call "genius"? Do we explain failure when we attribute it to the fictitious entity we call "madness"? Or do we deceive ourselves the same way that the person deceives himself when he attributes the easy ignition of hydrogen to its being "flammable"? Szasz interprets Virginia Woolf's life and work as expressions of her character, and her character as the "product" of her free will. He offers this view as a corrective against the prevailing, ostensibly scientific view that attributes both her "madness" and her "genius" to biological-genetic causes. We tend to attribute exceptional achievement to genius, and exceptional failure to madness. Both, says Szasz, are fictitious entities. |
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... Bell, and Leonard Woolf. Adrian enters Trinity College, Cambridge. Leslie Stephen dies. Virginia's second “breakdown ... Bell. Lytton Strachey (an overt homosexual) proposes to Virginia, then withdraws his proposal. Quentin Bell is born ...
... Bell, and Leonard Woolf. Adrian enters Trinity College, Cambridge. Leslie Stephen dies. Virginia's second “breakdown ... Bell. Lytton Strachey (an overt homosexual) proposes to Virginia, then withdraws his proposal. Quentin Bell is born ...
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... Bell dies. Leonard Woolf dies. Dramatis Personae Bell, Clive (1881-1964). Critic and philosopher of art. x “My Madness Saved Me”
... Bell dies. Leonard Woolf dies. Dramatis Personae Bell, Clive (1881-1964). Critic and philosopher of art. x “My Madness Saved Me”
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... Bell. Bell, Quentin (1910-1996). Art historian, painter, and potter. Son of Vanessa and Clive Bell. Author of a definitive biography of his aunt, Virginia Woolf. Bell, Vanessa (Stephen) (1879-1961). Painter. Member of the Bloomsbury ...
... Bell. Bell, Quentin (1910-1996). Art historian, painter, and potter. Son of Vanessa and Clive Bell. Author of a definitive biography of his aunt, Virginia Woolf. Bell, Vanessa (Stephen) (1879-1961). Painter. Member of the Bloomsbury ...
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... Wilberforce. Woolf, Leonard (1880-1969). Civil servant, writer, publisher. Member of the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941). Abbreviations Bell, Q., Virginia Woolf: A Biography (2 vols.; New Dramatis Personae xiii.
... Wilberforce. Woolf, Leonard (1880-1969). Civil servant, writer, publisher. Member of the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941). Abbreviations Bell, Q., Virginia Woolf: A Biography (2 vols.; New Dramatis Personae xiii.
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... Bell (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977-80). Cited as Diary. Woolf, V., The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann (6 vols.; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975-80). Cited as Letters ...
... Bell (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977-80). Cited as Diary. Woolf, V., The Letters of Virginia Woolf, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann (6 vols.; New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975-80). Cited as Letters ...
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