In this innovative and ambitious study, Bernadette Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine reverse the Cartesian conception of the dominance of the rational and propose instead a dramatic interconnection of body and mind. The author analyzes early modern medical and philosophical treatises, as well as contemporary medical compilations, to demonstrate that these seventeenth-century French writers fully anticipated current thought regarding psychosomatic illness.
In this innovative and ambitious study, Bernadette Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine reverse the Cartesian conception of the dominance of the rational and propose instead a dramatic interconnection of body and mind. The author analyzes early modern medical and philosophical treatises, as well as contemporary medical compilations, to demonstrate that these seventeenth-century French writers fully anticipated current thought regarding psychosomatic illness.
Bernadette Höfer is an Assistant Professor of French at The Ohio State University, USA.
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List of Figures Acknowledgments Note on Translations Introduction 1 The Relational Conception of Mind and Body in the Seventeenth Century 2 Possession Exorcism and Madness: The Context of Jean-Joseph Surin's Illness 3 Melancholic Subversions in Molière's Le misanthrope (1666) and Le malade imaginaire (1673) 4 Psychosomatic Fiction in Madame de Lafayette: The Enigma of Illness 5 The Theater of Melancholy: Jean Racine's Phèdre (1677) Conclusion Works Cited Index
List of Figures Acknowledgments Note on Translations Introduction 1 The Relational Conception of Mind and Body in the Seventeenth Century 2 Possession Exorcism and Madness: The Context of Jean-Joseph Surin's Illness 3 Melancholic Subversions in Molière's Le misanthrope (1666) and Le malade imaginaire (1673) 4 Psychosomatic Fiction in Madame de Lafayette: The Enigma of Illness 5 The Theater of Melancholy: Jean Racine's Phèdre (1677) Conclusion Works Cited Index
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