Topp, Leslie (2012) The mad objects of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: journeys, contexts and dislocations in the exhibition “Madness and Modernity”. In: Blackshaw, G. and Wieber, S. (eds.) Journeys Into Madness:Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Austrian and Habsburg Studies 14. Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, pp. 10-26. ISBN 9780857454584.
Abstract
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’.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Architecture, Space and Society, Centre for |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Mar 2013 15:27 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:02 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/6237 |
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