Bernadette HAfer's innovative and ambitious monograph argues that
the epistemology of the Cartesian mind/body dualism, and its
insistence on the primacy of analytic thought over bodily function,
has surprisingly little purchase in texts by prominent classical
writers. In this study HAfer explores how Surin, Moliere,
Lafayette, and Racine represent interconnections of body and mind
that influence behaviour, both voluntary and involuntary, and that
thus disprove the classical notion of the mind as distinct from and
superior to the body. The author's interdisciplinary perspective
utilizes early modern medical and philosophical treatises, as well
as contemporary medical compilations in the disciplines of
psychosomatic medicine, neurobiology, and psychoanalysis, to
demonstrate that these seventeenth-century French writers
established a view of human existence that fully anticipates
current thought regarding psychosomatic illness.
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