INSTINCT OVER REASON– GERMAN LITERATURE FROM SEBASTIAN BRANT TO GERHART HAUPTMANN
INSTINCT OVER REASON– GERMAN LITERATURE FROM SEBASTIAN BRANT TO GERHART HAUPTMANN

Summary/Abstract: There are many different perspectives and definitions for mental disorder or madness, as was the term defined from the Middle Ages until Naturalism. From possession of the soul to the medical scientific definition, the illness of the soul and the wretchedness of the mind labyrinth have always been the key interests for doctors and moreover doctors that were also in the literary field. Naturalism offers us the best rendering of reality of the mad and all behavioural misconducts, the mental illnesses are roughly portrayed and no emotions are spared. Characters are scripted as patients are, all illnesses are described just like in a medical treaty and feelings are kept alive by vivid imagery.

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