Mind of Modernism

This vanguard collection of original and indepth essays explores the intricate interplay of the aesthetic and psychological domains during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and considers the reasons why a common Modernist project took shape when and in the circumstances that it did. These changes occurred precisely when the distinctively modern disciplines of psychology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis established their "scientific" foundations and achieved the forms in which we largely know them today. This volume examines the dense web of connections joining the aesthetic and psychological realms in the modern era, charting historically the emergence of the ongoing modern discussion surrounding such issues as identity-formation, sexuality, and the unconscious. The contributors form a distinguished and diversified group of scholars, who write about a wide range of cultural fields, including philosophy, the novel and poetry, drama, dance, film, and photography, as well as medicine, psychology, and the occult sciences. Cultural Sitings

ISBN 0804747970   Pages 480 ISBN13 9780804747974 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Stanford University Press   Weight (grammes) 617 Imprint Stanford University Press   Published in Palo Alto Format Paperback   Series title Cultural Sitings Publication date 31 Jan 2004   Height (mm) 232 Library of Congress PN56.P93   Width (mm) 163 DEWEY 809.9112   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Contributors
		Introduction: The Modernist Mind - A Map by Mark S. Micale		1
		The Modernist Mind: A Timeline		21
Pt. I		Cultures of Hysteria
1		Discourses of Hysteria in Fin-de-Siecle France by Mark. S. Micale		71
2		From Charcot to Charlot: Unconscious Imitation and Spectatorship in French Cabaret and Early Cinema by Rae Beth Gordon		93
3		Automatisme Ambulatoire: Fugue, Hysteria, and Gender at the Turn of the Century by Ian Hacking		125
Pt. II		Technologies of the Psyche
4		In Your Face: Physiognomy, Photography, and the Gnostic Mission of Early Film by Tom Gunning		141
5		Freud the Modernist by John Brenkman		172
6		Shock Effects: Marinetti, Pathology, and Italian Avant-Garde Poetics by Lawrence Rainey		197
Pt. III		Medicine, Literature, and Modernism
7		Playing with Signatures: The Young Charles Richet by Jacqueline Carroy		217
8		Writing Psychology Over: Gertrude Stein and William James by Steven Meyer		250
Pt. IV		Transformations of the Self
9		Between Science and Art: Freud versus Schnitzler, Kafka, and Musil by David Joravsky		277
10		Refashioning the Masculine Subject in Early Modernism: Narratives of Self-Dissolution and Self-Construction in Psychoanalysis and Literature, 1900-1914 by John E. Toews		298
Pt. V		Modernism and Anti-Psychologism
11		T. E. Hulme, Henri Bergson, and the Cultural Politics of Psychologism by Jesse Matz		339
12		Modernism and the Specter of Psychologism by Martin Jay		352
		Notes		367
		Index		449

"This excellent, well-organized collection widens our understanding of the diverse representation of the psyche by modernists, as well as premodernists, in various intellectual and cultural domains. The development of the modern disciplines of psychology, including psychiatry and psychoanalysis, in conjunction with modernism provides fertile ground for establishing new connections that enrich our understanding of both the disciplines and modernism."

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