Female Madness and the Feminine Monstrous: Genre as Confinement and Genre as Affective Repository

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2021-03-06 DOI:10.13110/NARRCULT.8.1.0058

Nataša Polgar

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Abstract

Abstract:This essay addresses the period of the second half of the nineteenth century, in which the genre of belief legends plays a key role in understanding the mechanisms of ideology and its repercussions on the interconnectedness of madness, the monstrous and the feminine in the social and cultural context, in which different types of women's transgressions are more often and more severely sanctioned, thus affecting the psychiatric discourse. Using archival material from the first psychiatric institution in Croatia, the article interrogates the role of a specific type of female patient narratives featuring demonological beings, called belief legends by folklore studies, and their fundamental discursive incompatibility with psychiatric, scientific, rational and male discourse, which interprets belief legends simply as a symptom of madness.

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女性疯狂与女性畸形:作为禁锢的体裁与作为情感宝库的体裁

摘要：本文论述了19世纪下半叶的时期，在这一时期，信仰传说在理解意识形态的机制及其对社会和文化背景下疯狂、可怕和女性的相互联系的影响方面发挥着关键作用，其中，不同类型的女性违法行为更频繁、更严厉地受到制裁，从而影响了精神话语。本文利用克罗地亚第一家精神病机构的档案材料，探讨了一种以民俗学存在为特征的特定类型的女性患者叙事的作用，民俗学研究称之为信仰传说，以及她们与精神、科学、理性和男性话语的根本话语不相容性，它将信仰传说简单地解释为疯狂的症状。

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Narrative Culture HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.