Psychic Empire:Literary Modeism and the Clinical State (Modeist Latitudes)

by: Cate I. Reilly (Author)

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Publication Date: 2024/6/11

Language: English

Print Length: 344 pages

ISBN-10: 0231214642

ISBN-13: 9780231214643

Book Description

In nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empirical psychology, clinical psychiatry, and neuroanatomy transformed the understanding of mental life in ways long seen as influencing modeism. Tuing to the history of psychiatric classification for mental illnesses, Cate I. Reilly argues that modeist texts can be understood as critically responding to objective scientific models of the psyche, not simply illustrating their findings. Modeist works written in industrializing Central and Easte Europe historicize the representation of consciousness as a quantifiable phenomenon within techno-scientific modeity.Looking beyond modeism’s well-studied relationship to psychoanalysis, this book tells the story of the non-Freudian vocabulary for mental illnesses that forms the precursor to today’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Developed by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the 1890s, this psychiatric taxonomy grew from the claim that invisible mental illnesses were analogous to physical phenomena in the natural world. Reilly explores how figures such as Georg Büchner, Est Toller, Daniel Paul Schreber, Nikolai Evreinov, Vsevolod Ivanov, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal understood the legal and political consequences of representing mental life in physical terms. Working across literary studies, the history of science, psychoanalytic criticism, critical theory, and political philosophy, Psychic Empire is an original account of modeism that shows the link between nineteenth-century scientific research on the mental health of national populations and twenty-first-century globalized, neuroscientific accounts of psychopathology and sanity.

About the Author

In nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like psychophysics, empirical psychology, clinical psychiatry, and neuroanatomy transformed the understanding of mental life in ways long seen as influencing modeism. Tuing to the history of psychiatric classification for mental illnesses, Cate I. Reilly argues that modeist texts can be understood as critically responding to objective scientific models of the psyche, not simply illustrating their findings. Modeist works written in industrializing Central and Easte Europe historicize the representation of consciousness as a quantifiable phenomenon within techno-scientific modeity.Looking beyond modeism’s well-studied relationship to psychoanalysis, this book tells the story of the non-Freudian vocabulary for mental illnesses that forms the precursor to today’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Developed by the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the 1890s, this psychiatric taxonomy grew from the claim that invisible mental illnesses were analogous to physical phenomena in the natural world. Reilly explores how figures such as Georg Büchner, Est Toller, Daniel Paul Schreber, Nikolai Evreinov, Vsevolod Ivanov, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal understood the legal and political consequences of representing mental life in physical terms. Working across literary studies, the history of science, psychoanalytic criticism, critical theory, and political philosophy, Psychic Empire is an original account of modeism that shows the link between nineteenth-century scientific research on the mental health of national populations and twenty-first-century globalized, neuroscientific accounts of psychopathology and sanity.

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