Isabelle StåhlPart-time fixed-term lecturer
About me
I am a doctoral candidate, writing my dissertation on the literary aspects of psychiatric drug protocols in the Weimar Republic [1924-1929], and shows how an aesthetic practice were used in the knowledge production, with Walter Benjamin as a research subject. My dissertation examines how the inner experience of drugs were used in the knowledge production of the human, in a close interplay with literary primitivism, the narrativization of emotions and the searching for a new way of seeing.
Supervisors: Staffan Bergwik & Victoria Fareld
Research
My dissertation examines the literary aspects of psychiatric drug protocols in the Weimar Republic [1924-1929], and shows how an aesthetic practice were used in the knowledge production, with Walter Benjamin as a research subject. My dissertation examines how the inner experience of drugs were used in the knowledge production of the human, in a close interplay with literary primitivism, the narrativization of emotions and the searching for a new way of seeing.