9. Reason Dazzled: Klimt, Krakauer and the Eyes of the Medusa

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. The Mad Objects of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Journeys, Contexts and Dislocations in the Exhibition ‘Madness and Modernity’ 10
6. 2. Solving Riddles: Freud, Vienna and the Historiography of Madness 27
7. 3. Symphonies and Psychosis in Mahler’s Vienna 43
8. 4. Creating an Appropriate Social Milieu: Journeys to Health at a Sanatorium for Nervous Disorders 58
9. 5. Travel to the Spas: The Growth of Health Tourism in Central Europe, 1850–1914 72
10. 6. Vienna’s Most Fashionable Neurasthenic: Empress Sisi and the Cult of Size Zero 90
11. 7. Peter Altenberg: Authoring Madness in Vienna circa 1900 109
12. 8. ‘Hell Is Not Interesting, It Is Terrifying’: A Reading of the Madhouse Chapter in Robert Musil’s The Man without Qualities 130
13. 9. Reason Dazzled: Klimt, Krakauer and the Eyes of the Medusa 145
14. 10. Mapping the Sanatorium: Heinrich Obersteiner and the Art of Psychiatric Patients in Oberdöbling around 1900 162
15. 11. The Württemberg Asylum of Schussenried: A Psychiatric Space and Its Encounter with Literature and Culture from the ‘Outside’ 182
16. Select Bibliography 200
17. Notes on Contributors 204
18. INDEX 207