Literature, art and medical knowledge in Almas y cerebros by Enrique Gómez Carrillo

The relations between literature and medicine constitute one of the central themes in the literature of the late nineteenth century. In this paper I present the issue through two texts by Enrique Gómez Carrillo, published in Almas y cerebros: the story “Psicopatía” and the treatise “Notas sobre las...

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Autor principal: Iriarte, Ignacio
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Instituto de Literatura Hispanoamericana (Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires) 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/zama/article/view/10802
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Sumario:The relations between literature and medicine constitute one of the central themes in the literature of the late nineteenth century. In this paper I present the issue through two texts by Enrique Gómez Carrillo, published in Almas y cerebros: the story “Psicopatía” and the treatise “Notas sobre las enfermedades de la sensación desde el punto de vista de la literatura”. In the first part I describe the importance of psychiatry and the placement of literature in the field of disease. In the second and third parts, I compare Gómez Carrillo’s treatise with Psycopathia sexualis, a book by Richard von Krafft-Ebing on which the writer is based. In the last part, I draw some conclusions regarding the relationship between literature and the invention of psychoanalysis.