期刊名称：Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
印刷版ISSN：1755-1560
出版年度：2012
卷号：0
期号：15
页码：1-19
DOI：10.16995/ntn.646
出版社：Birkbeck College, University of London
摘要：This paper addresses the overlapping ways in which self-inflicted injury was understood in relation to an absence of pain during the long nineteenth century, arguing that a clear distinction between bodily and mental suffering cannot be made in this period.The medical view that self-infliction of injury must necessarily be pathological is shown to have emerged from earlier philosophical approaches to pain.This was cemented by the formation of a somatic model of self-mutilation, based on the concept of cutaneous anaesthesia, particularly in the work of Wilhelm Griesinger in Germany.In contrast, the words of asylum patients provide a much broader spectrum of ways in which injuries might have been understood.Nonetheless, the meanings attributed generally emphasize self-mutilation as a response to physical, rather than emotional, pain, indicating the widespread nature of physical aetiologies of insanity.Such a somatic approach also permeated psychological models of self-inflicted injury in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as shown through examination of Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s concept of 'sexual anaesthesia', William James’s association of anaesthesia with the absence of emotion, and self-mutilation and fixed ideas in the work of Pierre Janet.The study of self-mutilation thus provides an interesting angle from which to explore the complexity of notions of body and mind, in relation to concepts of pain.
关键词：history of medicine; history of psychiatry;self-mutilation; self-injury; self-harm; hysteria; mental health; history of psychiatry; cutaneous anaesthesia; history of emotions
