The matter of motion and Galvani's frogs
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Finn's book also brings out the best in the modem biographies (Painter, Tadie) and foregrounds Proust's father-the famous professor of hygiene in the faculty of medicine in Paris, Dr Adrien Proust-in new light. Under this treatment, creative writing becomes more than the indulgence of desire or the rejuvenation of will. Cure of the disease of volition elevates neurasthenia to an aesthetic, when properly indulged, and provides a successful antidote to the malady in an era when medicine could offer none. The marshalling of the writer's attention thereby relates directly to the struggle to create a new form. The artistic consequence of such existence "between literature and medicine", as Finn suggests, is that it permits the author to confront the Other; that is, not merely to give voice to the dominant psychosocial maladies of the era-hysteria, neurasthenia, in Freud's nomenclature "the actual neuroses"-but to discover the self's voices and thereby redefine subjectivity more accurately. Hence Finn's compass demonstrates several things: literary, medical, bodily, linguistic, novelistic. Among all, he shows how actual flesh-and-blood body never lies far from artistic leap. He has also mastered the art of compression, and says more in a few pages than others would in three times the number.. His book may be short yet it opens up new avenues crucial in contemporary Proust studies.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 45 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001