Dream, creativity, and madness in nineteenth-century France /

Presents an analysis of the problematic relationship between dreams and madness as perceived by nineteenth-century French writers, thinkers, and doctors. This book shows how doctors thinkers, and writers grappled in very different ways with the problems raised by the so-called 'phenomena of sle...

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Main Author:	James, Tony, 1939-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:	Dreams > France > History > 19th century. Creative ability > France > History > 19th century. Mental illness > France > History > 19th century. Hallucinations and illusions > History > 19th century. Psychology and literature > History > 19th century. Hallucinations and illusions. Medicine in literature. Mental illness. Medicine > History. Perceptual disorders. Imagination. History. Literature, Modern. Literature. Sleep. Cognition. Humanities. Psychophysiology. Neurologic manifestations of general diseases. Human information processing. Nervous system > Diseases. Diseases. Hallucinations Medicine in Literature Dreams Mental Disorders History of Medicine History, 19th Century Perceptual Disorders Imagination History History, Modern 1601- Literature Sleep Psychiatry and Psychology. Cognition Neurobehavioral Manifestations Humanities Psychophysiology Neurologic Manifestations Mental Processes Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms. Psychological Phenomena and Processes. Signs and Symptoms Nervous System Diseases Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms. Disease History, Early Modern 1451-1600 Rêves > France > Histoire > 19e siècle. Créativité > France > Histoire > 19e siècle. Maladies mentales > France > Histoire > 19e siècle. Psychologie et littérature > Histoire > 19e siècle. Hallucinations. Médecine dans la littérature. Maladies mentales. Médecine > Histoire. Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle. Troubles de la perception. Histoire. Médecine > Histoire > 1500- Littérature. Sommeil. Sciences humaines. Psychophysiologie. Manifestations neurologiques des maladies. Traitement de l'information chez l'être humain. Système nerveux > Maladies. Maladies. mental disorders. history of medicine. imagination. history (discipline) cognition. humanities. illness. disease. Perceptual disorders Neurologic manifestations of general diseases Nervous system > Diseases Medicine in literature Medicine Literature, Modern Human information processing Diseases Creative ability Hallucinations and illusions Mental illness Psychology and literature France Parapsychology & Occult Sciences. Social Sciences. 1800-1899 Electronic books.
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by James, Tony, 1939-
Published 1995

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