Luigi Lugiato's "Madmen, deranged, criminals": Dostoevsky and Italian psychiatry after Cesare Lombroso.
This essay provides an exploration of the intertwining realms of psychiatry and literature, focusing particularly on the case of Fyodor Dostoevsky. The paper gives an overview of the interest in Dostoevsky's opus and biography displayed by Italian psychiatry, in particular by Cesare Lombroso and the...
| Publicado en: | Studies in East European Thought Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 981 - 998 |
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