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Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France

Dream, Creativity, and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France

James, Tony

Hardcover

Literary CriticismLinguisticsGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0198151888
ISBN13: 9780198151883
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Jan 25 1996
Pages: 316
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.93 Width: 6.39 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
Those wishing to know the nature of madness, wrote Voltaire, should observe their dreams. This is an important new analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness that preoccupied nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. Tony James shows how doctors (such as Esquirol, Lélut, and Janet), thinkers (including Maine de Biran and Taine), and writers (Balzac, Nerval, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, and Rimbaud) grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called phenomena of sleep and particularly the question: might dreams be a source of creativity?

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