Korsakoff's Syndrome and Modern German Literature: Alfred Döblin's Medical Dissertation

Korsakoff's Syndrome and Modern German Literature: Alfred Döblin's Medical Dissertation

This essay deals with the historical and cultural interrelationships between the medical and psychiatric discourses on memory and memory disorders at the end of the nineteenth century and the invention of an abstract and highly dissociated literary style in modern German literature. An historical re...

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Main Author: Roland Dollinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1998-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol22/iss1/7
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spelling doaj-cbf83867af5d432eafe0897ba622eb342020-11-25T00:24:46ZengNew Prairie PressStudies in 20th & 21st Century Literature2334-44151998-01-0122110.4148/2334-4415.14365673346Korsakoff's Syndrome and Modern German Literature: Alfred Döblin's Medical DissertationRoland DollingerThis essay deals with the historical and cultural interrelationships between the medical and psychiatric discourses on memory and memory disorders at the end of the nineteenth century and the invention of an abstract and highly dissociated literary style in modern German literature. An historical reading of Alfred Döblin's medical dissertation (1905) on Korsakoff's syndrome, an amnestic disorder, shows the confluence of both his psychiatric and aesthetic interests in human memory and its failures. The essay analyzes Döblin's medical dissertation less as the contribution of a young psychiatrist to his discipline but rather as an historical text that challenges us to see where some of the medical and aesthetic concerns of early twentieth-century German culture meet.http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol22/iss1/7
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title Korsakoff's Syndrome and Modern German Literature: Alfred Döblin's Medical Dissertation
title_short Korsakoff's Syndrome and Modern German Literature: Alfred Döblin's Medical Dissertation
title_full Korsakoff's Syndrome and Modern German Literature: Alfred Döblin's Medical Dissertation
title_fullStr Korsakoff's Syndrome and Modern German Literature: Alfred Döblin's Medical Dissertation
title_full_unstemmed Korsakoff's Syndrome and Modern German Literature: Alfred Döblin's Medical Dissertation
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description This essay deals with the historical and cultural interrelationships between the medical and psychiatric discourses on memory and memory disorders at the end of the nineteenth century and the invention of an abstract and highly dissociated literary style in modern German literature. An historical reading of Alfred Döblin's medical dissertation (1905) on Korsakoff's syndrome, an amnestic disorder, shows the confluence of both his psychiatric and aesthetic interests in human memory and its failures. The essay analyzes Döblin's medical dissertation less as the contribution of a young psychiatrist to his discipline but rather as an historical text that challenges us to see where some of the medical and aesthetic concerns of early twentieth-century German culture meet.
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