BOOK

Hypochondria

Rees, Will, author

2024

Overview

\"A personal and literary examination of hypochondria. A free-wheeling philosophical essay, Hypochondria combines cultural critique, literary history, and Rees's own experience of health anxiety to ask what we might learn from the hypochondriac's discomforting experience of their body. Hypochondria is unashamedly capacious in its range of references, from the writings of Robert Burton, Franz Kafka and Charlotte Brontë to original yet accessible readings of theorists like Lauren Berlant and Maurice Blanchot. Whether he is discussing Seinfeld, John Donne or his own hypochondriac past, Rees reveals himself to be a wry and perceptive critic, exploring the causes -- and the costs -- of our desire for certainty. An exercise in what Freud calls \"evenly suspended attention,\" Hypochondria demonstrates the rewards and the perils of reading (too) closely the common but typically overlooked aspects of our everyday lives.-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Subject: Rees, Will Mental health. / Illness anxiety disorder Patients Biography. / Illness anxiety disorder in literature. / Hypochondriasis / Psychiatry in Literature / Hypocondrie Patients Biographies.
• ISBN: 9781552454848, 1552454843

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RC552.H8 R44 2024	1	BOOK	GENERAL