Journeys Into Madness Mapping Mental Illness in the Austro-Hungarian Empire [Hardcover]

At the turn of the century, Sigmund Freuds investigation of the mind represented a particular journey into mental illness, but it was not the only exploration of this territory in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Sanatoriums were the new tourism destinations, psychiatrists were collecting art works produced by patients and writers were developing innovative literary techniques to convey a characters interior life. This collection of essays uses the framework of journeys in order to highlight the diverse artistic, cultural and medical responses to a peculiarly Viennese anxiety about the madness of modern times. The travellers of these journeys vary from patients to doctors, artists to writers, architects to composers and royalty to tourists; in engaging with their histories, the contributors reveal the different ways in which madness was experienced and represented in Vienna 1900.

Gemma Blackshawis Reader in Art History at Plymouth University. She is currently working on a Leverhulme-funded book on portraiture in Vienna circa 1900. She co-curated the exhibition Madness and Modernity: Art, Architecture and Mental Illness in Vienna 1900 (London and Vienna, 200910) and co-edited the exhibition catalogue.

Note on Contributors

Introduction ???????????
Gemma BlackshawandSabine Wieber

Chapter 1.The Mad Objects of Fin-de-Si?cle Vienna: Journeys, Contexts and Dislocations in the Exhibition Madness and Modernity
Leslie Topp

Chapter 2.Solving Riddles: Freud, Vienna and the Historiography of Madness
Steven Beller

Chapter 3.Symphonies and Psychosis in Mahlers Vienna
Gavin Plumley

Chapter 4.Creating an Appropriate Social Milieu: Journeys to Health at a Sanatorium for Nervous Disorders
Nicola Imrie

Chapter 5.Travel to the Spas: thelS—