Lang / Damousi / Lewis A history of the case study

Sexology, psychoanalysis, literature
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0611-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

The case study is a modern genre that has not yet outgrown its original purpose. This collection tells the story of the genre as inseparable from the foundation of sexology and psychoanalysis, and integral to the history of European literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lang, Birgit

Damousi, Joy

Lewis, Alison

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis
1 The shifting case of masochism: Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s
Venus im Pelz (1870)
Birgit Lang
2 Fin-de-siècle investigations of the ‘creative genius’ in psychiatry and psychoanalysis
Birgit Lang
3 ‘Writing back’: literary satire and Oskar Panizza’s Psichopatia criminalis (1898)
Birgit Lang
4 Erich Wulffen and the case of the criminal
Birgit Lang
5 Alfred Döblin’s literary cases about women and crime in Weimar Germany
Alison Lewis
6 Viola Bernard and the case study of race in post-war America
Joy Damousi
Conclusion
Birgit Lang, Joy Damousi and Alison Lewis
Select bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Birgit Lang is Associate Professor of German at The University of Melbourne

Joy Damousi is ARC Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Fellow and Professor of History at The University of Melbourne

Alison Lewis is Professor of German at The University of Melbourne