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Wahnsinnige Bilder -- Zu einer medialen Wissensgeschichte des Psychischen um 1900 (2014)

Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 37, no. 4
Issue: 4
Pages: 379-394

DOI: 10.1002/bewi.201401698

Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Part of a Series: Bühnen des Wahnsinns. Inszenierungen psychischer Alterität
Language: German

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Mental Images: Towards a Media History of the Psyche around 1900. Presupposing that visual practices are inherent to the social constitution of knowledge, this article suggests juxtaposing photographs and films produced in a psychiatric environment to popular films run in theaters around 1900, thus identifying cinema's particular “Denkstil” (Fleck). Rejecting science's dominating paradigm of visual objectivity (Daston/Galison), the visual apparatus [dispositif] of early cinema facilitates subjective experience of unreason and irrationality and thus initiates a different epistemological approach to knowledge as self-knowledge of a modern, self-reflexive subject. This is particularly evident in early cinema's depiction of the psyche, which does not solely focus on the physical manifestation of the `mad', `insane' body, but also visualizes the subject's inner life: technical means like montage, multiple exposure or stop motion can be employed to illustrate subjective visions, fantasies or dreams. Thus, the invisible mind becomes visible as the “unthinkable within thinking” (Deleuze), while the subject is invited to participate in cinema's “gay science” (Nietzsche).

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Article Friedland, Alexander; Herrn, Rainer; Kassar, Johannes; Ledebur, Sophie (2014) Einleitung: Bühnen des Wahnsinns. Inszenierungen psychischer Alterität. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte (pp. 303-308). unapi

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