Literary case study of psychosis: The Vegetarian
Gabor Sandor Ungvari, Stanley N. Caroff, Levente Csihi, Gábor Gazdag
World Journal of Psychiatry May 29, 2025 DOI: 10.5498/wjp.v15.i6.104247 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Literary case study Case report Peer reviewed |
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| Key findings | Argues that Han Kang's novel provides a detailed and realistic depiction of psychotic symptoms and illuminates historical phenomenological concepts such as catatonia, schizophrenic autism, paragnomen, and the praecox-feeling. |
Abstract
, the author, Han Kang, relates a compelling and dramatic story of inexorable psychotic deterioration from the perspective of a tragically affected young woman and her close family members. Apart from a variety of interpretations of psychosis from historical, social, psychological, and feminist perspectives, the book also presents a detailed and realistic picture of objective psychotic symptoms that reveals insights into historic and nearly forgotten phenomenological concepts. In this literary case study, we analyze the symptoms remarkably described by the author and briefly review the medical literature on the phenomena of catatonia, schizophrenic autism, paragnomen and the praecox-feeling.
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