Autopathography and Depression: Describing the "Despair Beyond Despair"

Journal article

Stephen T. Moran

Journal of Medical Humanities, Vol.27(2), pp.79-91

2006

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Title: Autopathography and Depression: Describing the "Despair Beyond Despair"
Author/Creator: Stephen T. Moran
Publication Details: Journal of Medical Humanities, Vol.27(2), pp.79-91
Annotation: Examines how Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Styron wrote about their depression as a way of understanding it. Positing that Hemingway filled his fiction with characters suffering from psychiatric conditions and alcoholism much like his own, Moran argues that Hemingway s metaphor of illness as a generation s outlook allowed him to deny the personal relevance of his psychiatric disorders. Reads the husband s situation in Indian Camp as a metaphor for profound depression. Comments briefly on alcoholism and suicide in The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, To Have and Have Not, and A Clean Well-Lighted Place.
Academic Unit: Hemingway Bibliography
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article
Record Identifier: 991015130613303691