Fighting Melancholia: Don Quixote's Teaching

di Francoise Davoine (Autore)

Agnes Jacob (Traduttore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2019

Francoise Davoine has been investigating psychotic phenomena and trauma for over thirty years, in collaboration with Jean-Max Gaudilliere. In this book, she draws on her literary background to take the reader on a fascinating voyage with an unexpected but most helpful guide: Don Quixote. In her work, Davoine approaches madness not as a symptom, but rather as a place, the place where the symbolic order and the social link have ruptured. She sees the psychotic as a seeker, engaged in a form of exploration into the nature and history of this place. This brings us to the seeker Don Quixote. Davoine takes the reader into the world of the knight-errant, to describe his adventures in a fascinating new light.Cervantes, the survivor of war trauma, captivity, and all manner of misfortunes, created this hero, first and foremost, so that the tale be told.

• Autore: Francoise Davoine
• Traduttore: Agnes Jacob
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 292 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 700 gr.
• EAN: 9780367103811

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