Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology

Warped Minds: Cinema and Psychopathology
ISBN-10
9089646329
ISBN-13
9789089646323
Category
Art
Pages
283
Language
English
Published
2014
Publisher
Film Culture in Transition (Ha
Author
Temenuga Trifonova

Description

Warped Minds explores the transformation of psychopathologies into cultural phenomena in the wake of the transition from an epistemological to an ontological approach to psychopathology. Trifonova considers several major points in this intellectual history: the development of a dynamic model of the self at the fin de si�cle, the role of photography and film in the construction of psychopathology, the influence of psychoanalysis on the transition from static, universalizing psychiatric paradigms to dynamic styles of psychiatry foregrounding the socially constructed nature of madness, and the decline of psychoanalysis and the aestheticization of madness into a trope describing the conditions of knowledge in postmodernity as evidenced by the transformation of multiple personality and paranoia into cultural and aesthetic phenomena.

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