Andrea Kottow

• Andrés Bello University

This article explores the figure of madness as it appears in a corpus of literary texts written in 19th century Chile: Mariluán by A. Blest Gana, Diario de una loca, by J.V. Lastarria, Juana Lucero by Augusto D’Halmar, El loco Estero, by A. Blest Gana. The image of unreason as resistance, discontent and/or uneasiness enmeshed in modern ideology wil...

The present article proposes a revisión of AIDS imaginary -understanding the disease as a discursive practice- in three Latin-American works of literature: Salón de belleza, by Mario Bellatín, Loco afán, by Pedro Lemebel, and Fernando Vallejo's El desbarrancadero, looking into the implications of working discursively with the topic of a disease of...

The article suggests a reading of the novelsEl palacio de la risa,ÍdolaandCartagoby Germán Marín, departing from the image of the individual’s loss of a uniting shelter, symbolically represented by the dyadic bubble proposed by the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. Putting into dialogue Marín and Sloterdijk, this article shows that the narrative of the...

Based on the distinction between living body and lived body, we describe the disease-subject as representing the impact of disease on the existential life-project of the subject. Traditionally, an individual's subjectivity experiences disorders of the body and describes ensuing pain, discomfort and unpleasantness. The idea of a disease-subject goes...

It is generally accepted that the practice of medicine could be improved by turning to the humanities in general, and to narrative and text interpretation in particular. Neverthless, there is hardly any agreement as to the nature of the clinical text, whether it be the patient's narrative that needs to be richly understood, or the patient as patien...

Dateiformat: zip, Dateiein im PDF-Format Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2004. Computerdatei im Fernzugriff.

Berlin, Freie Univ., Diss., 2004 (Nicht für den Austausch).