Robert Snell

Portraits of the Insane (eBook, ePUB)

Theodore Gericault and the Subject of Psychotherapy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the early 1820s, in the gloomy aftermath of the 1789 Revolution and the Napoleonic wars, the French Romantic painter Theodore Gericault (1791-1824) made five portraits of patients in an asylum or clinic. No depictions of madness before or since can compare with them for humanity, straightforwardness and immediacy. The portraits challenge us to find responses in ourselves to the face and the embodied mysteries of the other person, and to our own internal (unsconscious, disavowed) otherness: in this sense, Gericault was a "painter-analyst". The challenge could not be more urgent, in our world of suspicion of the stranger, and of the medicalisation of madness. The book sketches the history of this last process, from the Enlightenment through to the Revolution and its public health policies, to the birth of the asylum in its interface with the penal system. But there was also a new medico-philosophical conviction that the mad were never wholly mad, and their suffering and disturbance might best be addressed through relationship and speech.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429917400
• Artikelnr.: 54137671

Autorenporträt

Robert Snell

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Illustrations
The canvases unrolled
Géricault
a biographical sketch
Madness in modernity
1656-1789
The Revolution
Cabanis
Pinel
the asylum
A new account of the human: responses to Pinel's Traité
The Golden Age of alienism
Géricault and the alienists
History painter
Surplus and the limits of interpretation
Some Conclusions