학술논문

In the Margins: Louis Wolfson, Language, Literature, and a Dying Mother
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Essays in French Literature and Culture, Vol 58, Pp 157-172 (2021)
Subject
autobiography
schizophrenia
language
illness narrative
deleuze
critical medical humanities
louis wolfson
French literature - Italian literature - Spanish literature - Portuguese literature
PQ1-3999
Language
English
French
ISSN
1835-7040
99743574
Abstract
This article considers whether Louis Wolfson’s Le Schizo et les langues (1970) constitutes a literary or a clinical document. Focusing on Gilles Deleuze’s reaction to Wolfson’s book, I analyse the ways in which Deleuze’s reading of Wolfson underwent significant changes from the time of his writing the preface to Le Schizo et les langues until he wrote about Wolfson again as part of Critique et Clinique (1993). I propose that Wolfson’s work and Deleuze’s shifting readings of it, destabilize hegemonic discourses within the Medical Humanities.