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Edgar Allan Poe - Amateur Psychologist (Hardcover, New edition)
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Edgar Allan Poe - Amateur Psychologist (Hardcover, New edition)
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Edgar Allan Poe: Amateur Psychologist is the "first and foremost"
major source of information dedicated to the theme of Poe and
psychopathology. Its introduction, conclusion, chapters, and
appendices highlight and employ the best insights from earlier and
current scholars, but this text goes beyond them in its analysis of
Poe's relation to mainstream psychology and its rival system,
phrenology. His knowledge of this subject matter is far broader and
deeper than Poe specialists have hitherto supposed; his
method-contrary to the "Poe myth" according to which an alcoholic,
drug-addicted, tormented artist wrote to exorcise his own
pathologies-was to research mental illnesses for the sake of
scientific precision and verisimilitude. We also come to appreciate
the interrelatedness of the psychopathologies he illustrates and
other "knowledge frames," characteristic themes, featured in his
tales, such as the occult, symbology, chromatography, the "cult of
sensibility," Neoplatonism, and Transcendentalist epistemology.
While locating Poe firmly within the science and pseudoscience of
his time, Edgar Allan Poe: Amateur Psychologist simultaneously
looks back from the 1830s and 40s (when Poe's literary career was
at its height) to theories and possible sources of information from
the late eighteenth century, as well as forward to the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries to demonstrate how Poe's theories of
mind, and his depiction of psychological illnesses, occasionally
anticipate modern insights and therapies. The book will be of
interest not only to Poe scholars but also to students, teachers,
and any intelligent reader interested in psychology, psychotherapy,
and the history of ideas.
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