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Where are the snows
Christopher and Alexandra's passion for one another raises eyebrows and invites envy. This beautiful blinkered couple do the unthinkable and run away from home, abandoning their two teenage children.
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Psychosis and Intelligibility
When interacting with other people, we assume that they have their reasons for what they do and believe, and experience recognizable feelings and emotions. When people act from weakness of will or are otherwise irrational, what they do can still be comprehensible to us, since we know what it is like to fall for temptation and act against one’s better judgment. Still, when someone’s experiences, feelings and way of thinking is vastly different from our own, understanding them becomes increasingly difficult. Delusions and psychosis are often seen as marking the end of intelligibility. In this article, I argue first for the importance of seeing other people as intelligible as long as this is at all possible. Second, I argue, based on both previous literature and my own lived experience, that more psychotic phenomena than previously thought can be rendered at least somewhat intelligible. Besides bizarre experiences like illusions, hallucinations, and intense feelings of significance, I also explain what it is like to lose one’s bedrock, and how this loss impacts which beliefs one has reason to reject. Finally, I give an inside account of some disturbances of reason, and show that there are important similarities between certain psychotic reasoning problems and common non-pathological phenomena.
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The Elizas : a novel
\"When debut novelist Eliza Fontaine is found at the bottom of a hotel pool, her family at first assumes that it's just another failed suicide attempt. But Eliza swears she was pushed, and her rescuer is the only witness. Desperate to find out who attacked her, Eliza takes it upon herself to investigate. But as the publication date for her novel draws closer, Eliza finds more questions than answers. Like why are her editor, agent, and family mixing up events from her novel with events from her life? Her novel is completely fictional, isn't it?\"-- Provided by publisher.
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How the Jansenist convulsionnaires Passed into Nineteenth-Century French Fiction: The Case of Léon Hennique's Elisabeth Couronneau
Few religious groups made as distinctive a mark on nineteenth-century French culture as the eighteenth-century convulsionnaires , a fringe group of the dissident reform movement within Catholicism known as Jansenism. The epicenter of their movement was the tomb of deacon François de Pâris, whom adepts viewed as a saint capable of carrying out miraculous cures and divine justice against the repressive Unigenitus Bull. The Convulsionaries both captivated and alarmed their contemporaries through their spectacular faith demonstrations, which sometimes involved crucifixions and other brutal mortifications. They also inspired literary adaptations like Léon Hennique's Elisabeth Couronneau (1879). Although often described as a \"hysteria\" novel, Elisabeth Couronneau is more properly understood as a historical novel that drew on a long tradition of satires of Parisian life. Hennique's fictionalization of the Convulsionaries and their context illustrates the role which eighteenth-century accounts of this peculiar religious movement played in shaping perceptions of it in the nineteenth century. It also shows the place of literature in the process by which later theorists created an imagined relationship between the Convulsionaries and phenomena they sought to explain—which included not simply hysteria, but also credulity, delusions of grandeur, and the dangerous powers of social imitation.
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Supermarket
\"Flynn is stuck--depressed, recently dumped, and living at his mom's house. The supermarket was supposed to change all that. An ordinary job, routine hours, a steady check. Work isn't work when it's saving you from yourself. But things aren't quite as they seem in these aisles. Arriving to work one day to a crime scene, Flynn's world begins to crumble as the secrets of his tortured mind are revealed. And Flynn doesn't want to go looking for answers at the supermarket, because something there seems to be looking for him\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Women Reprimanding Women: The Gothic Parody and its Social Criticism
In the late eighteenth century, the Gothic parody, ridiculing the generic traits of the Gothic novel, often directed their humor at the parody heroine. Specifically, the didactic Gothic parody aimed at educating the heroine into a normative, gender-role conforming young woman who rejects the excesses of the Gothic in favor of an adherence to normative conduct. The use of humor in the Gothic parody serves to “normativize” the heroine of the Gothic parody, which will be exemplified by Mary Charlton’s Rosella (1799) and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey (1817). Despite the similarities in their plots, the novels differ in their application of parody directed at the protagonist. Austen’s must reject her overindulged imagination and learn to differentiate reality and fiction; Charlton’s needs to endure the overindulged imagination of her guardians, whose penchant for confusing reality and fiction nearly leads to Rosella’s downfall. While both novels thus discuss the dangers of confusing reality and fiction, their targets for ridicule, the degree to which the respective characters are affected by their delusions, and the degree of “real” danger these delusions can cause differ significantly.
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Love as delusion, delusions of love: erotomania, narcissism and shame
Erotomania has a long, colourful history in psychiatry. It is a rare condition in which the patient (‘subject’) develops the belief that he or she is loved from afar by another person (‘object’). The subject is generally female, though men predominate in forensic samples. The object is generally perceived to belong to a higher social class, reflecting a sociopolitical element in the construction of love. Erotomania requires active treatment and risk management as it can be associated with stalking and other offending behaviour. In addition to featuring in the psychiatry literature, erotomania features in the biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (the apparent ‘object’ of a woman’s erotomanic delusions in the early 1900s) and in fiction (eg, Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love); this reflects, in part, the general popularity of romantic themes in broader literature and society. In psychological terms, certain cases of erotomania might be underpinned by combinations of longing, disappointment, shame and narcissism in specific social contexts. Lesser forms of delusional exaggeration of true love might also exist in some stable relationships, and might even be essential for their continued existence. Overall, the division between love and delusions of love is not as distinct as one might imagine. The potential presence of an element of delusional love in many relationships might well serve important social functions, conferring specific advantages on the parties involved and increasing social and community stability. After all, delusions persist; love dies.
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Dossier : la causalité diabolique : nouvelles figures : la diabolisation des Juifs : fonction d’une fiction
Bernard Lazare définissait notamment le malheur des Juifs à partir d’une effervescence affabulatrice à leur égard. En d’autres termes, à partir d’une source vive de narratifs dans lesquels tous les fantasmes, au sens libidinal, peuvent se loger et laisser libre cours à leurs délires de puissances contrariées. Le processus hallucinatoire de la diabolisation s’inscrit lui-même dans cette narration prolifique imaginaire et fantasmée à l’\"ombre de la connaissance,\" ou comme son envers, au sein d’une opposition dialectique presque mécanique--si l’on suit la théorie adornienne de l’antisémitisme. Dans une perspective similaire, nous pourrions nous demander s’il y a eu une rationalisation de la diabolisation des Juifs dans la modernité, si elle a pris les contours d’un envers d’une rationalité contre une autre, tout comme le diable existe à côté d’un dieu.
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El acceso a la \verdad\ a través de la “ficción\ en Chernobyl. El delirio del relato en la hipermodernidad
Poco antes de que la humanidad se viera envuelta en una crisis social y sanitaria de carácter global (principios del año 2020), llegó al mercado audiovisual internacional, a modo de premonición fatalista, la serie de televisión Chernobyl (2019). Un documento que, lejos de representar unos hechos exclusivamente históricos, se erige como realidad especular del momento actual, en el que las consecuencias de las decisiones de los gobiernos trazan irremediablemente el destino de los ciudadanos. Chernobyl, la premiada miniserie de televisión coproducida por HBO y Sky, se inspira en el drama histórico provocado por la explosión de un reactor en la central nuclear ucraniana del mismo nombre en abril de 1986 y reconstruye prácticamente minuto a minuto, bajo una mirada particular, las causas que dieron lugar al accidente. El presente artículo tiene como propósito determinar hasta qué punto una ficción basada en hechos reales puede alterar, o no respetar, los sucesos históricos probadamente demostrados en favor de la construcción de un relato audiovisual. Para ello, se efectúa un examen documental de los hechos “reales” a partir de las fuentes periodísticas e históricas publicadas. El objetivo es analizar cómo los desvíos de la realidad, que hemos definido como “delirios del relato” afectan de alguna manera a la historia verdadera. La fórmula de construcción del relato, “basado en hechos reales”, mezclando dos formatos diferentes (cinco capítulos de ficción más un epílogo a modo de documental con imágenes de archivo) tiene el propósito de hacer parecer verdadero lo que se cuenta por medio de la forma en la que se cuenta.
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