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dc.contributor.authorSkålevåg, Svein Atle
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-11T12:46:54Z
dc.date.available2022-03-11T12:46:54Z
dc.date.created2021-06-01T09:00:56Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.isbn9780367769741
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2984666
dc.description.abstractLife narratives are written in many different forms. This chapter discusses two such life narratives, constituting two textual explorations of the same ageing self, that of the Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun. As part of a legal process following World War II, Hamsun was submitted to a psychiatric examination to assess his sanity. The examination resulted in a written report by the two psychiatrists that was presented to the court of law. A few years later, Hamsun published his memoir, On Overgrown Paths , which is partly an attack on psychiatry and the psychiatric approach to the self that he experienced before the trial. This chapter offers a reading of these two documents, the psychiatric report and the literary response to the report, in light of a notion of narratives and anti-narratives. It argues that a search for a coherent self was an intrinsic element in the psychiatric way of making sense of the self. It further argues that the response from the examinee was made in the form of a memoir that was an anti-narrative, challenging the very notion of a coherent self.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.ispartofCultural Histories of Ageing: Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self
dc.title"I Do Not Write a Life": Hamsun, Psychiatry and Life Narrativeen_US
dc.typeChapteren_US
dc.description.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2021 Routledgeen_US
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cristin.fulltextpostprint
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169208
dc.identifier.cristin1912960
dc.identifier.citationIn: Skagen, M.V. (Ed.). (2021). Cultural Histories of Ageing: Myths, Plots and Metaphors of the Senescent Self.en_US


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