Abstract:This artistic investigation is based on personally experienced symptoms caused by nervous disorders and is to be seen as a graphic phenomenology. Drawing physical sensations raises fundamental questions as to the very possibility of visual representation and of conveying to others what cannot be seen. Efforts to come to grips with bodily perception that has been altered as a result of a chronic illness lead, by dint of introspection and externalization, to a new understanding of one's own body. In addition, the graphic catalogue of physical sensations can provide a stimulus for a response on the part of other persons affected by the disease while, at the same time, contributing in a general way to conveying what is simply difficult to formulate in words.
{"title":"The (In)conspicuous Body: Perceiving and Visually Representing Physical Sensations: A Visual Essay","authors":"Barbara Graf","doi":"10.3138/seminar.59.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.59.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This artistic investigation is based on personally experienced symptoms caused by nervous disorders and is to be seen as a graphic phenomenology. Drawing physical sensations raises fundamental questions as to the very possibility of visual representation and of conveying to others what cannot be seen. Efforts to come to grips with bodily perception that has been altered as a result of a chronic illness lead, by dint of introspection and externalization, to a new understanding of one's own body. In addition, the graphic catalogue of physical sensations can provide a stimulus for a response on the part of other persons affected by the disease while, at the same time, contributing in a general way to conveying what is simply difficult to formulate in words.","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"133 1","pages":"12 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89334686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kristen A Ehrenberger, Alys X. George, A. Killen, Britta McEwen, A. Kinzelbach, Barbara Graf, Mert Bahadır Reisoğlu, Elisabeth Flucher, C. Treitel, Alexander Obermüller
Abstract:This article takes photographer August Sander's portfolio "The Doctor and the Pharmacist" as an opportunity to reflect on tensions and fractures in German medicine in the modern era. This group of twelve portraits, which includes both professional and—in the person of three practitioners of alternative medicine—non-professional physicians, draws attention to the complex and often contradictory process of boundary formation that accompanied the emergence of scientific medicine in the early twentieth century. The article also considers the complex relation of the photographic medium itself to this process of boundary formation.
摘要:本文以摄影师奥古斯特·桑德(August Sander)的作品集《医生与药剂师》(The Doctor and The pharmacists)为契机，反思当代德国医学的紧张与断裂。这组十二幅肖像，其中包括专业医生和三名替代医学从业者，非专业医生，引起人们对20世纪初科学医学出现的复杂且经常相互矛盾的边界形成过程的关注。文章还考虑了摄影媒介本身与这一边界形成过程的复杂关系。
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Abstract:This article takes photographer August Sander's portfolio "The Doctor and the Pharmacist" as an opportunity to reflect on tensions and fractures in German medicine in the modern era. This group of twelve portraits, which includes both professional and—in the person of three practitioners of alternative medicine—non-professional physicians, draws attention to the complex and often contradictory process of boundary formation that accompanied the emergence of scientific medicine in the early twentieth century. The article also considers the complex relation of the photographic medium itself to this process of boundary formation.
摘要:本文以摄影师奥古斯特·桑德(August Sander)的作品集《医生与药剂师》(The Doctor and The pharmacists)为契机，反思当代德国医学的紧张与断裂。这组十二幅肖像，其中包括专业医生和三名替代医学从业者，非专业医生，引起人们对20世纪初科学医学出现的复杂且经常相互矛盾的边界形成过程的关注。文章还考虑了摄影媒介本身与这一边界形成过程的复杂关系。
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.3138/seminar.59.1.rev002
A. Kinzelbach
{"title":"Michael Stolberg. Gelehrte Medizin und ärztlicher Alltag in der Renaissance","authors":"A. Kinzelbach","doi":"10.3138/seminar.59.1.rev002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.59.1.rev002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80140750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Autobiographical reports on hypochondriasis, now known as somatic symptom disorder or illness anxiety disorder, were common and popular in the eighteenth century. In this article, I compare and contrast two such autobiographical reports by poets with a case study by the famous philosopher and physician Marcus Herz of the well-known poet Karl Philipp Moritz, published after the latter's death. Despite the serious subject matter, the three texts all rely on elements of the poetic genre of comedy. The article analyzes how the poet-patients linked therapy and healing to writing and imagination, while the physician paradoxically thought writing and imagination contributed to the sickness of hypochondriasis. Related topics such as the topos of the melancholic poet; laughter as a method of healing; acting, role play, and lying in dialogical therapy; as well as psychological aspects of doctor-patient-relations establish the topicality and timeliness of eighteenth-century discourse on hypochondriasis. While the practice of psychotherapy and its foundation on the interrelatedness of soma and psyche were still experimental, the first principle of a therapeutic relationship between doctor/therapist and patient/subject was already mapped out in Herz's text. The article shows how a patient's perspective on his own healing as well as a doctor's perspective on the patient's healing relied on different formal aspects of the classical poetics of drama. The "dramatic" exaggeration of sickness in hypochondriasis and the narration of its healing are thus closely modeled on formal aspects of dramatic structure. Besides their well-being, patients' autonomy is at stake through the power of telling their own stories.
{"title":"„Sterben Sie weise!\"—Dramatisierungen der Hypochondrie in Fallerzählungen des 18. Jahrhunderts","authors":"Elisabeth Flucher","doi":"10.3138/seminar.59.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.59.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Autobiographical reports on hypochondriasis, now known as somatic symptom disorder or illness anxiety disorder, were common and popular in the eighteenth century. In this article, I compare and contrast two such autobiographical reports by poets with a case study by the famous philosopher and physician Marcus Herz of the well-known poet Karl Philipp Moritz, published after the latter's death. Despite the serious subject matter, the three texts all rely on elements of the poetic genre of comedy. The article analyzes how the poet-patients linked therapy and healing to writing and imagination, while the physician paradoxically thought writing and imagination contributed to the sickness of hypochondriasis. Related topics such as the topos of the melancholic poet; laughter as a method of healing; acting, role play, and lying in dialogical therapy; as well as psychological aspects of doctor-patient-relations establish the topicality and timeliness of eighteenth-century discourse on hypochondriasis. While the practice of psychotherapy and its foundation on the interrelatedness of soma and psyche were still experimental, the first principle of a therapeutic relationship between doctor/therapist and patient/subject was already mapped out in Herz's text. The article shows how a patient's perspective on his own healing as well as a doctor's perspective on the patient's healing relied on different formal aspects of the classical poetics of drama. The \"dramatic\" exaggeration of sickness in hypochondriasis and the narration of its healing are thus closely modeled on formal aspects of dramatic structure. Besides their well-being, patients' autonomy is at stake through the power of telling their own stories.","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"36 1","pages":"44 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81323364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.3138/seminar.59.1.rev001
B. McEwen
{"title":"Birgit Nemec. Norm und Reform: Anatomische Körperbilder in Wien um 1925","authors":"B. McEwen","doi":"10.3138/seminar.59.1.rev001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.59.1.rev001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74053446","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article traces the emergence of the health narrative as a new genre of bodily knowledge in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany. Health narratives were life stories told by or about an individual, either real or fictional, who made conscious choices about how to conduct their bodily existence. Pioneered by lay health seekers known as life reformers, health narratives were co-opted by physicians hoping to reinvent medical enlightenment for the twentieth century. In addition to surveying the variety of forms that health narratives took in adult and children's literature, the article explores the paradoxes and contradictions that ensued around voice, agency, embodiment, and selfhood as these narratives spread from life reform to medical contexts.
{"title":"German Health Narratives between Life Reform and Medical Enlightenment, 1890–1930","authors":"C. Treitel","doi":"10.3138/seminar.59.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.59.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article traces the emergence of the health narrative as a new genre of bodily knowledge in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Germany. Health narratives were life stories told by or about an individual, either real or fictional, who made conscious choices about how to conduct their bodily existence. Pioneered by lay health seekers known as life reformers, health narratives were co-opted by physicians hoping to reinvent medical enlightenment for the twentieth century. In addition to surveying the variety of forms that health narratives took in adult and children's literature, the article explores the paradoxes and contradictions that ensued around voice, agency, embodiment, and selfhood as these narratives spread from life reform to medical contexts.","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"53 1","pages":"69 - 93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91328201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Founded in 1881, the Wiener Freiwillige Rettungs-Gesellschaft (WFRG) sought to provide first aid to city dwellers in fin-de-siècle Vienna. This article analyzes how first responders established themselves as intermediaries between patients and the medical clinic and sought legitimacy from authorities as medical professionals. First responders contributed to processes of medicalization, widely shared information on patients, and readily deferred to police at a time of rapid change. Drawing on Viennese newspapers and the WFRG's annual reports and daily logbooks, the author shows how first responders dealt with public scrutiny, conscripted themselves into the fight against malingerers, and joined authorities in administratively surveying and morally policing patients' bodies. In their quest to gain social and professional legitimacy, first responders' medicalizing practices and deference to existing authorities went hand in hand.
{"title":"To the Rescue: First Responders and Medical(ized) Bodies in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna","authors":"Alexander Obermüller","doi":"10.3138/seminar.59.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.59.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Founded in 1881, the Wiener Freiwillige Rettungs-Gesellschaft (WFRG) sought to provide first aid to city dwellers in fin-de-siècle Vienna. This article analyzes how first responders established themselves as intermediaries between patients and the medical clinic and sought legitimacy from authorities as medical professionals. First responders contributed to processes of medicalization, widely shared information on patients, and readily deferred to police at a time of rapid change. Drawing on Viennese newspapers and the WFRG's annual reports and daily logbooks, the author shows how first responders dealt with public scrutiny, conscripted themselves into the fight against malingerers, and joined authorities in administratively surveying and morally policing patients' bodies. In their quest to gain social and professional legitimacy, first responders' medicalizing practices and deference to existing authorities went hand in hand.","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"126 9 1","pages":"116 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79588027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-11-01DOI: 10.3138/seminar.58.4.rev002
Meindert E. Peters
{"title":"Kata Gellen. Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism","authors":"Meindert E. Peters","doi":"10.3138/seminar.58.4.rev002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/seminar.58.4.rev002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44556,"journal":{"name":"SEMINAR-A JOURNAL OF GERMANIC STUDIES","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79223012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In 1922 German art historian and psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn published his groundbreaking monograph Bildnerei der Geisteskranken, which psychologically and aesthetically analyzed the art of the mentally ill. Tucked away in a footnote is reference to an episode in Gottfried Keller's novel Der grüne Heinrich (1855, 1879/80) when the title artist creates a monstrous web of doodles. This essay explores the implications of Keller's doodle for Prinzhorn's thesis along with the re-evaluation of doodling as a legitimate creative gesture. It concludes by following the doodle into the museum through the artworks of Jean Dubuffet, a pioneering force behind outsider art who was influenced by Prinzhorn's Bildnerei and wielded the doodle as critique against traditional notions of art. Doodles' journey from marginalia to museum-worthy artworks reveals their subversive power to give voice to those marginalized by society, while also exposing the weaknesses and paradoxes of an outsider art for effecting true institutional reform.
摘要:1922年，德国艺术史学家、精神病学家汉斯·普林中恩出版了开创性的专著《精神病患的艺术》，从心理和美学角度分析了精神病患的艺术。隐藏在脚注中的是戈特弗里德·凯勒(Gottfried Keller)的小说《Der gr ne Heinrich》(1855,1879/80)中的一个情节，当时标题艺术家创作了一个巨大的涂鸦网。这篇文章探讨了凯勒的涂鸦对普林斯霍恩论文的影响，以及对涂鸦作为一种合法的创造性姿态的重新评估。最后，通过让·杜布菲(Jean Dubuffet)的作品跟随涂鸦进入博物馆，杜布菲是局外人艺术背后的先锋力量，他受到普林斯顿的比尔德纳雷(Bildnerei)的影响，并将涂鸦作为对传统艺术观念的批判。涂鸦从边缘到值得博物馆收藏的艺术作品的历程，揭示了它们为社会边缘群体发声的颠覆力量，同时也暴露了局外人艺术在影响真正的制度改革方面的弱点和悖论。
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