La Nevrosi Tra Medicina e Letteratura: Approccio Epistemologico Alle Malattie Nervose Nella Narrativa Italiana (1865-1922)

Edwige Comoy examines the importance of neurosis as both a scientific and literary subject in nineteenth-century Italy. The birth of psychiatry made neurosis into a symbol of individual and collective unease, and Comoy sheds light on its pervasiveness in a vast cultural, scientific and philosophical context, one that led to medicalized narratives and literary medical discourse. Italian text.