Mental Illnesses in Symbolism

Table of Contents


List of Illustrations ………………………………………………
Introduction ………………………………………………………
Rosina Neginsky

Part One: Madness in Art


Chapter One ……………………………………………………..
Psychiatric Photography, the Expression of Emotions, and Italian Symbolist Art: The Search for Self and Identity Crisis at the Turn of the 20th Century
Mario Finazzi

Chapter Two ………………………………………………………………………
The Hidden World of the Unconscious: Expressions of Underground Chaos in the Work of Mikhail Vrubel
Rosina Neginsky

Chapter Three …………………………………………………….
Tout n’est que syphilis”: Venereal terror and the representation of women in fin de siécle Belgium
Natalia Vieyra

Chapter Four ………………………………………………………
Verhaeren on Rembrandt’s “folie”, “S’il n’était un génie, on le prendrait pour un fou”
Albert Alhadeff

Part Two: Madness in Literature


Chapter Five ………………………………………………………
Nabokov and Psychiatry: The Case of Luzhin
Nora Bukhs

Chapter Six ………………………………………………………..
Russian Paranoid Discourse
Olga Skonechnaya

Chapter Seven ……………………………………………………..
Sexual Neurosis or Creative Catalyst? Hysteria and Demonic Possession in Alexei Remizov’s Solomoniia
Julia Friedman

Part Three: Madness in Music


Chapter Eight ………………………………………………………
Mental Disorder and Creativity in Composers: The Performer’s Gesture as a Pointer to Traces of “Madness”
Jean-Pierre Armengaud


Contributors


Albert Alhadeff, University of Colorado, United States
Jean-Pierre Armengaud, Université d’Evry-Saclas, France
Nora Bukhs, Université Paris-Sorbonne, France
Mario Finazzi, Independent Scholar, Italy
Julia Friedman, California State University Long Beach, United States
Rosina Neginsky, University of Illinois, United States
Olga Skonechnaya, Paris-Sorbonne, France
Natalia Vieyra, Taft University, United States






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