CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
From Verdun to Hitler and Nagasaki: The Wars of Antonin Artaud.
PART ONE
THE WAR 1914-1918.
Artaud, Antoine, Marie Joseph, Identification Number: 3728.
A - 1914-1918: ANTONIN ARTAUD, infantryman, adjourned and then three times reformed
Artaud and Dr. Joseph Grasset: in the context of war. - Artaud, Breton, Masson ... A hasty generation in guerre.- Verdun 1916. Disjecta membra .- The water and mud of the trenches.
B - THE GREAT WAR AND NEURO-PSYCHIATRIC CENTER OF THE ARMED
A laboratory for human behavior. - Trauma, neuroses and "sinistroses" war. - The automation of war and warlike asylum mechanical engineering. - A new gesture. - The coercive treatment used on both sides of the forehead. - Clovis Vincent, Gustave Roussy and the "sinking". - Clovis Vincent and Deschamps Zouave Case. - Gustave Roussy and the "Eagle's Nest" Fort St. Andrew. - The Marseille Neurology Center (Region XV).
C - THE « GREAT IMITATOR »: Syphilis
1914-1920: war, sexuality and venereal diseases. - Marseille, open city, a city of epidemics. - Victor Audibert: the "nuances" of syphilis. The sickly, genius and the criminal. - January 1917: timely "hereditary syphilis." - The "magic Obus" Dr. Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915). - The Theater "Enervés". - Joseph Babinski and André Breton: the simulator and its double. - Simulation and Sursimulation. - "creating simulators" and "fixing simulators". - André Breton and the "simulation" of mental illness.
D - THE "FUNNY WAR" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) and Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)
The wind shells, the mud of Flanders. - The "crisards" war of 14. - The cowardice and "imagination of death". - The Regiment rogue and "stray". - Cruelty, flesh, meat, language. - A vision of the postwar period. - The Parade, circus and anarchy. " Guignol's Band ." - The painting of the hospital.
PART TWO
POST-WAR (1919-1939). CONTINUED THE WAR.
A - CIVIL SOCIETY upset. The reversal of the proposal Clausewitz. The culture of the post World War. - Surrealism war against war. - The "escalation '.
La culture de l'après première guerre mondiale. — Le surréalisme en guerre contre la guerre. — La "montée aux extrêmes".
B - 1928-1932: WAR FILM: Verdun, history Visions (1928), The Wooden Crosses (1932)
Verdun history Visions (1928): The death of the soldier. - 1931-1932. The Wooden Cross . - The « Crisard » War of 14-18. - The war. From Expressionism to Abel Gance.
C - MENTAL HEALTH.
The causes of insanity: the formation of Edouard Toulouse. - Edouard Toulouse (1865- 1947). - The Biotypology. - Antonin Artaud and Edouard Toulouse. - The warrior world of medicine: war on disease. - The evolution of the term "mental hygiene". - A hereditary fault. - decadence and degeneration. - The "Capital Human" and the cost of treatment: a saving of mental illness. - 1936. The rise of fascism. - January 1937: Mental Hygiene and prevention of mental disorders. - The apocalypse. - Nazism or the meeting of eugenics and race.
PART THREE
1939-1946: EXILED IN HIS OWN COUNTRY
A -THE ASYLUMS TIME
France is at war. The exodus, the occupation. - The situation in lunatic asylums. - 1939-1943: life at the asylum of Ville-Evrard.
B - ENTRY OF HITLER IN THE GAME OF INSANITY
The Berlin cafes and Romanisches Café (1930-1932). - Hitler and the "planes" of Ville-Evrard. - Hit1er this crazy puppet. - August 1941. "Have you ever dreamed of Hitler" (interview with André Breton by Charles Henry Ford ). - War: a viral method. - The Map Territory.
C - HITLER (1889-1945): From Pasewalk to the « Final Solution »
Hitler’s first war: manufacture of a legend. - AH Corporal, "neurotic war." - neurosis and hysteria of war: the medical record of Hitler. - The aestheticism of the war.
PART FOUR
THE RODEZ PERIOD. RESISTANCE AND WAR MACHINE.
A - 1943-1946: THE ASYLUM FROM RODEZ
Electroconvulsive. - "The army of his heart girls." - The grape and the "green verdigris."
B - RESISTANCES
War as a model. - The state of mental warfare. - Illness as crossing boundaries. - Theater operations.
C - ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE QUESTION OF RACE
Robert Desnos, Sonia Mosse: The Nazi barbarism.
PART FIVE
WAR STRATEGIES AND WAYS TO WRITE
A - THE FIREPOWER OF THE MOMO
Power of destruction and resistance machines. - The body shotgun. Machines of Victor Tausk. Machines of Antonin Artaud. - The shielding to be. - Games, Strategy, war games.
B - THE WAR MACHINE OF
THE PAPERS (1945-1948)
To write. Make war. Draw. - Breaths. - The Spells and Letters of Dr. Fouks. - The "notebooks-guns" Rodez. - Antonin Artaud, Gaston Ferdière warriors and their doubles.
PART SIX: 1946-1948
POST-WAR, THE RETURN, THE ATOMIC AGE
Nagasaki and Bikini. [Hiroshima]. - The entry into the atomic age. - André Breton: Hiroshima bomb to America. - US wars. - 1948 - To end with God's judgment . - A political Artaud. - The European decadence. -The political delirium: Madmen in authority.
CONCLUSION
POLICY AND PSYCHIATRIC. THE QUESTION OF POWER.
Extending the field of psychiatry. - The psychiatrist as a political prescriber. - Expert Input.
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