| Fighting Melancholia: Don Quixote's Teaching Contributor(s): Davoine, Françoise (Author), Jacob, Agnès (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367103818 ISBN-13: 9780367103811 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $178.13 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd) - Psychology | Mental Health - Psychology | Psychotherapy - Counseling |
| Physical Information: 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Francoise Davoine has been investigating psychotic phenomena and trauma for over thirty years, in collaboration with Jean-Max Gaudilliere. In this book, she draws on her literary background to take the reader on a fascinating voyage with an unexpected but most helpful guide: Don Quixote. In her work, Davoine approaches madness not as a symptom, but rather as a place, the place where the symbolic order and the social link have ruptured. She sees the psychotic as a seeker, engaged in a form of exploration into the nature and history of this place. This brings us to the seeker Don Quixote. Davoine takes the reader into the world of the knight-errant, to describe his adventures in a fascinating new light.Cervantes, the survivor of war trauma, captivity, and all manner of misfortunes, created this hero, first and foremost, so that the tale be told. |
Contributor Bio(s): Davoine, Francoise: - Francoise Davoine obtained an Agregation in classics (French literature, Latin and Greek) in 1966, followed by a doctorate in sociology in 1981, before becoming a psychoanalyst. She worked for thirty years as a psychoanalyst in public psychiatric hospitals in France, and as an external consultant and is currently in private practice. She was a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Movements, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, where she and Jean-Max Gaudillière conducted a weekly seminar on "Madness and the Social Link." She has also made numerous presentations at the Austen Riggs Center in Massachusetts, as well as elsewhere in the US, in England, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Switzerland. Dr Davoine is the author of many articles and books, including La Folie Wittgenstein, Mother Folly, and History Beyond Trauma (with Jean Max Gaudillière). |