TY - JOUR
TI - From Acedia to Schizophrenia
AU - Weeber, Jeanne
TI - From Acedia to Schizophrenia
AB - The experiences of the medieval acedia and the modern schizophrenia present some resemblances in their symptoms. The literature of the twentieth century offers figures of schizophrenic whose representation includes traditional patterns of the acedia : isolation, boredom, detachment, visions... The study of the nature of the disorder of female characters in works of the sixties by Marguerite Duras (France), Janet Frame (New Zealand), Sylvia Plath (United States of America) or Jennifer Dawson (Great‐Britain) reveals the legacy of the acedia in the imagination of contemporary writers. Moreover, it questions the psychopathological conception of schizophrenia and reveals its moral, spiritual and social aspects.
VL - 2017
IS - Numéro 11 Acédie / Honte, malaise, inquiétude, ressentiment
PY - 2017
SN - 2300-4681
C1 - 2353-8953
SP - 309
EP - 325
DO - 10.4467/23538953CE.17.017.6911
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/cahiers-erta/article/heritage-de-lacedie-exemple-de-romans-des-annees-soixante-traitant-de-schizophrenie
KW - acedia
KW - schizophrenia
KW - Marguerite Duras
KW - melancholy
KW - Michel Foucault