Dostoyevsky and epilepsy: between science and mystique / Dostoiévski e a epilepsia: entre a ciência e a mística
Arq. neuropsiquiatr
;
68(1): 140-142, Feb. 2010.
Article
in English
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ABSTRACT
This article, the result of a research project presented as a Master's degree dissertation in the graduate program of "Teaching of Health Education" at UNIFESP, seeks to highlight the pertinence of analyzing epilepsy and especially, the paradoxical experience of the epileptic individual through literary narrative. Using as its object the novel, The Idiot, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, it seeks to discuss the relationship between epilepsy and the mystic experience, bearing in mind the context of the scientific and humanistic perspectives of the 19th century and today.
RESUMO
Este artigo, fruto de uma pesquisa apresentada como dissertação de mestrado junto ao programa de pós-graduação "Ensino em Ciências da Saúde" da UNIFESP, procura apontar a pertinência de se analisar a epilepsia e, principalmente, a paradoxal experiência do epiléptico através da narrativa literária. Tomando como objeto o romance O Idiota, de Fiódor Dostoiévski, procura-se discutir a relação entre epilepsia e experiência mística, considerando o contexto das perspectivas científicas e humanísticas do século XIX e de hoje.
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Main subject:
Epilepsy
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Famous Persons
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Literature, Modern
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Medicine in Literature
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
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Europa
Language:
English
Journal:
Arq. neuropsiquiatr
Journal subject:
Neurology
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Psychiatry
Year:
2010
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Secretariat of the City of São Paulo/BR
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UNIFESP/BR
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