Journeys Into Madness

Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-458-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Austrian and Habsburg Studies

At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freud’s investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this ‘territory’ in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a character’s interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times. The travellers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers and royalty to tourists; in engaging with their histories, the contributors reveal the different ways in which madness was experienced and represented in ‘Vienna 1900’.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Blackshaw, Gemma

Wieber, Sabine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Geschichte der Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Note on Contributors

Introduction            

Gemma Blackshaw and Sabine Wieber

Chapter 1. The Mad Objects of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Journeys, Contexts and Dislocations in the Exhibition “Madness and Modernity”

Leslie Topp

Chapter 2. Solving Riddles: Freud, Vienna and the Historiography of Madness

Steven Beller

Chapter 3. Symphonies and Psychosis in Mahler’s Vienna

Gavin Plumley

Chapter 4. Creating an Appropriate Social Milieu: Journeys to Health at a Sanatorium for Nervous Disorders

Nicola Imrie

Chapter 5. Travel to the Spas: the Growth of Health Tourism in Central Europe 1850-1914

Jill Steward

Chapter 6. Vienna’s Most Fashionable Neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the Cult of Size Zero

Sabine Wieber

Chapter 7. Peter Altenberg: Authoring Madness in Vienna circa 1900

Gemma Blackshaw

Chapter 8. “Hell is not interesting, it is terrifying.” A Reading of the Madhouse Chapter in Robert Musil’sThe Man without Qualities

Geoffrey Howes

Chapter 9. Reason Dazzled: Klimt, Krakauer and Eyes of the Medusa

Luke Heighton

Chapter 10. Mapping the Sanatorium: Heinrich Obersteiner and the Art of Psychiatric Patients in Oberdöbling around 1900

Anna Lehninger

Chapter 11. The Wuerttemberg Asylum of Schussenried: a Psychiatric Space and its Encounter with Literature and Culture from the Outside

Thomas Mueller and Frank Kuhn

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Wieber, Sabine
Sabine Wieber is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Glasgow. She has published on German and Austrian design culture, German national identity and constructions of gender in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (Vienna, 2010).

Blackshaw, Gemma
Gemma Blackshaw is Reader in Art History at Plymouth University. She is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded book on portraiture in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (London and Vienna, 2009–10) and co-edited the exhibition catalogue.

Gemma Blackshaw is Reader in Art History at Plymouth University. She is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded book on portraiture in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (London and Vienna, 2009–10) and co-edited the exhibition catalogue.