My Madness Saved Me: The Madness and Marriage of Virginia WoolfRoutledge, 2017. 12. 2. - 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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... interpretations but unresisting when we compose them, and it may be that the mere semblance of the world's acquiescence to our metaphor- making leads us deeper and deeper into illusion. Joyce Carol Oates1 Contents Chronology Dramatis ...
... interpretations but unresisting when we compose them, and it may be that the mere semblance of the world's acquiescence to our metaphor- making leads us deeper and deeper into illusion. Joyce Carol Oates1 Contents Chronology Dramatis ...
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... interpreting the subject's behavior as evidence of his mental illness ; in particular , they view the subject's suicide as evidence that his malady is a genetically - determined disease / mental illness . brain Unsurprisingly , it is ...
... interpreting the subject's behavior as evidence of his mental illness ; in particular , they view the subject's suicide as evidence that his malady is a genetically - determined disease / mental illness . brain Unsurprisingly , it is ...
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... interpretation of Virginia Woolf's life , work , and so - called mental illness . Was her alleged manic - depression unintentional medical illness or an intentional hysterical stratagem ? Was it a happening or an action ? 21 Kretschmer ...
... interpretation of Virginia Woolf's life , work , and so - called mental illness . Was her alleged manic - depression unintentional medical illness or an intentional hysterical stratagem ? Was it a happening or an action ? 21 Kretschmer ...
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... interpreted this perfectly reasonable and understandable behavior as a " symptom " of a ( nervous ) " breakdown ... interpretations - by Virginia's family when she was thirteen and by Bell when he wrote a biography of her - went a long ...
... interpreted this perfectly reasonable and understandable behavior as a " symptom " of a ( nervous ) " breakdown ... interpretations - by Virginia's family when she was thirteen and by Bell when he wrote a biography of her - went a long ...
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... interpretation of Virginia's mourning a beloved parent as a mental illness , and omitting that , unlike her siblings , Virginia was very close to her father . She loved him dearly : He was her teacher and companion , and she was his ...
... interpretation of Virginia's mourning a beloved parent as a mental illness , and omitting that , unlike her siblings , Virginia was very close to her father . She loved him dearly : He was her teacher and companion , and she was his ...
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He shut people | |
My madness saved | |
A screwed up shrunk very old man | |
He will go on better without | |
Hes got a finger in my mind | |
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