Beware of the Other Side(s)
Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction
This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder. This syndrome comprehends the occurrence of two or more distinct identities that take control of a person's behavior paired with an inexplicable memory loss. Synthesizing the fields of psychiatry and the dynamics of the disorder with its influential representation in American fiction, the study researches how psychiatry and fiction mutually shaped a mysterious syndrome and how this reciprocal process created a genre fiction of its own that persists until today in a very distinct self-referential mode.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Acknowledgments
Seiten 9 - 10 -
Preface
Seiten 11 - 14 -
Introduction
Seiten 15 - 22 -
Part I: History and Theory
1 Personalities or Personality States?
Seiten 25 - 40 -
2 The Split of Personality:
Seiten 41 - 48 -
3 Of Demons and Dissociation:
Seiten 49 - 72 -
4 Shock and Trauma:
Seiten 73 - 88 -
5 The Other Side(s):
Seiten 89 - 128 -
6 Voices of Doubt:
Seiten 129 - 138 -
Part II: The Culture-embedded Syndrome - Multiple Personality and Dissociation in American Fiction
7 Brand Identity and "Culture-embedded Syndrome":
Seiten 141 - 158 -
8 Creating a Public Consciousness:
Seiten 159 - 170 -
9 Fractured Minds:
Seiten 171 - 198 -
10 "Man's Dual Nature" - Classical Literary Texts of Dissociation:
Seiten 199 - 228 -
11 Beyond Control:
Seiten 229 - 258 -
12 Further Divisions:
Seiten 259 - 286 -
13 "What is your name?":
Seiten 287 - 298 -
Part III: Contemporary Variations in Selected Novels
14 "This is what Mary would have said…":
Seiten 301 - 316 -
15 "I know this because Tyler Durden knows this…":
Seiten 317 - 334 -
16 " - textbook MPD":
Seiten 335 - 350 -
17 "Three! Three personalities in one…":
Seiten 351 - 362 -
18 "Recall what had been lost…":
Seiten 363 - 374 -
19 "It's almost like there are two of me…":
Seiten 375 - 390 -
20 "It's all staged…":
Seiten 391 - 408 -
21 Voices of Imagination:
Seiten 409 - 414 -
Conclusion
Seiten 415 - 422 -
Works Cited
Seiten 423 - 448 -
Filmography
Seiten 449 - 456
15. März 2014, 456 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-2488-9
Dateigröße: 9.1 MB
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