The man who thought he was Napoleon : toward a political history of madness / Laure Murat ; translated by Deke Dusinberre ; with a foreword by David A. Bell
By: Murat, Laure [author].
Contributor(s): Dusinberre, Deke [translator] | Bell, David Avrom [writer of preface] | Ohio Library and Information Network.
Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2014Description: 287 pages illustrations.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780226025735.Uniform titles: Homme qui se prenait pour Napoléon. English Subject(s): Projective identification -- France -- History | Mentally ill -- France -- History | Mental illness -- France -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC455.4.P76 M8713 2014 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000010707 |
"Originally published as L'homme que se prenait pour Napoléon : pour une histoire politique de la folie. © Copyright Éditions Gallimard, 2011"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Revolutionary terror, or losing head and mind -- Asylum or political prison? -- The man who thought he was Napoleon -- Morbus democraticus -- Reason in revolt
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By investigating nineteenth-century medical cases and doctors' observations, this book attempts to understand how political events such as revolutions and the rise of new systems of government affect mental health and/or can be represented as delirious in psychiatric and literary discourses. Rather than denouncing wrongful confinements, this book analyzes what is at stake in the intertwined discourses of madness, psychiatry, and political theory