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Querulatorisches Schreiben. Paranoia, Aktenberge und mimetischer Parasitismus um 1900

Author(s): Gaderer, Rupert

Abstract

Around 1900, psychiatry was interested in »peculiar documents« from »paranoid malcontents.« Anomalies in the performance and tracing of handwriting were considered as evidence for the clinical picture »malcontent's paranoia.« These diagnoses concerning the noise of writing and the querulous scene of writing can be traced back to bureaucratic decisions of the 18th century: For example, laws and declarations which established the malcontent as a specific type of plaintiff in the legal proceedings of the Prussian bureaucracy. These psychiatric and bureaucratic discussions were concerned with something that one might call »mimetic parasitism.«

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Gaderer, Rupert: Querulatorisches Schreiben. Paranoia, Aktenberge und mimetischer Parasitismus um 1900. In: ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung, Jg. 4 (2013), Nr. 2, S. 37-51. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18531.
@ARTICLE{Gaderer2013,
 author = {Gaderer, Rupert},
 title = {Querulatorisches Schreiben. Paranoia, Aktenberge und mimetischer Parasitismus um 1900},
 year = 2013,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/18531}",
 volume = 4,
 address = {Hamburg},
 journal = {ZMK Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung},
 number = 2,
 pages = {37--51},
}
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