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“Psychotic Depression” and Suicide in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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A close analysis of one particular character in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: Kate Gompert, a suicidal marijuana addict afflicted with "psychotic depression" can be found in this paper.Abstract:
This essay offers a close analysis of one particular character in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest: Kate Gompert, a suicidal marijuana addict afflicted with “psychotic depression.” While the novel consistently posits a neuroscientific, material explanation for such an illness—i.e., the primacy of the body and the tyrannical oppression of brain chemistry—there also exists a spiritual-philosophical undercurrent that posits a construction of the Self defined by experience and choice.read more
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History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture
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"Yo man so what's your story": The Double Bind and Addiction in David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
TL;DR: The authors argued that the double bind is the hermeneutic crux of Infinite Jest, and reviewed the origins of the phrase (Gregory Bateson), by summarizing David Foster Wallace's use of it in his non-fiction, and by reading very closely three occasions of the double-bind phrase in the novel.
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David Foster Wallace’s treatment of therapy after postmodernism
TL;DR: The authors discuss the influence of other writers who have also written about therapy, focusing on Wallace's work in the context of a much larger turn in contemporary literature toward novels with more in-depth therapist characters.
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Re-politicizing Mental Illness: Reflections on Boredom and Depression in American Post-postmodern Fiction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw on the insights provided by Franco Berardi to shed light on the significance of post-postmodern literature in terms of psychological problems, mental illness, boredom, depression, addiction and medication.
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“Pointing at Shadows”: Wallace, Wittgenstein, and the Problem of Putting Pain into Words
TL;DR: This article showed that the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein exerted an important influence on David Foster Wallace's fictive representations of clinical depression, and that this influence was not recognized by the author.
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Electroconvulsive therapy for depression.
TL;DR: An 82-year-old woman with severe depression, including psychotic symptoms, is referred for consideration of electroconvulsive therapy.
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History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture
TL;DR: This history of suicide voluntary death in western culture medicine and culture can help you to solve the problem and can be one of the right sources to develop your writing skill.
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Understanding David Foster Wallace
TL;DR: A detailed approach to the fiction of a pioneer in modernism's third wave can be found in this paper, which guides readers through thoughtful examinations of Wallace's novels ''The Broom of the System'' and ''Infinite Jest'' and first two short story collections, ''Girl with Curious Hair"" and ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men".
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
TL;DR: The series of stories from which this exuberantly acclaimed book takes its title is a sequence of imagined interviews with men on the subject of their relations with women as discussed by the authors, and these portraits of men at their most self-justifying, loquacious and benighted explore poignantly and hilariously the agonies of sexual connections.