Psychosomatic Disorders in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
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Baroque Bodies
Cartesian dualism critique
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Erotic Melancholy
Feigned Illness
French classical authors
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Jean Baptiste Poquelin
Jean Joseph Surin
Jeanne Des Anges
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La Princesse De
Le Malade Imaginaire
Le Misanthrope
Louis De Rouvroy
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mind body interaction
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Psychosomatic Disorders
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Racine's Play
Racine’s Play
Seventeenth Century French Literature
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- ISBN 9780754666219
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Sep 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Bernadette Höfer's innovative and ambitious monograph argues that the epistemology of the Cartesian mind/body dualism, and its insistence on the primacy of analytic thought over bodily function, has surprisingly little purchase in texts by prominent classical writers. In this study Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine represent interconnections of body and mind that influence behaviour, both voluntary and involuntary, and that thus disprove the classical notion of the mind as distinct from and superior to the body. The author's interdisciplinary perspective utilizes early modern medical and philosophical treatises, as well as contemporary medical compilations in the disciplines of psychosomatic medicine, neurobiology, and psychoanalysis, to demonstrate that these seventeenth-century French writers established a view of human existence that fully anticipates current thought regarding psychosomatic illness.
Bernadette Höfer is an Assistant Professor of French at The Ohio State University, USA.
