Publications of Catherine Reilly    :chronological  alphabetical  combined listing:

%% Books   
@book{fds375288,
   Author = {Reilly, C},
   Title = {Psychic Empire: Literary Modernism and the Clinical
             State},
   Pages = {352 pages},
   Publisher = {Columbia University Press},
   Year = {2024},
   Month = {May},
   Abstract = {In nineteenth-century imperial Germany and the
             Austro-Hungarian Empire, new scientific fields like
             psychophysics, empirical psychology, clinical psychiatry,
             and neuroanatomy transformed the understanding of mental
             life in ways long seen as influencing modernism. Turning to
             the history of psychiatric classification for mental
             illnesses, Cate I. Reilly argues that modernist texts can be
             understood as critically responding to objective scientific
             models of the psyche, not simply illustrating their
             findings. Modernist works written in industrializing Central
             and Eastern Europe historicize the representation of
             consciousness as a quantifiable phenomenon within
             techno-scientific modernity. Looking beyond modernism’s
             well-studied relationship to psychoanalysis, this book tells
             the story of the non-Freudian vocabulary for mental
             illnesses that forms the precursor to today’s Diagnostic
             and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Developed by the
             German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin in the 1890s, this
             psychiatric taxonomy grew from the claim that invisible
             mental illnesses were analogous to physical phenomena in the
             natural world. Reilly explores how figures such as Georg
             Büchner, Ernst Toller, Daniel Paul Schreber, Nikolai
             Evreinov, Vsevolod Ivanov, and Santiago Ramón y Cajal
             understood the legal and political consequences of
             representing mental life in physical terms. Working across
             literary studies, the history of science, psychoanalytic
             criticism, critical theory, and political philosophy,
             Psychic Empire is an original account of modernism that
             shows the link between nineteenth-century scientific
             research on the mental health of national populations and
             twenty-first-century globalized, neuroscientific accounts of
             psychopathology and sanity.},
   Key = {fds375288}
}


%% Articles in a Journal   
@article{fds375287,
   Author = {Reilly, C},
   Title = {The Brain in History: Neurocolonialism and the
             Anthropocene},
   Journal = {Journal of Ecohumanism},
   Year = {2024},
   Month = {October},
   Key = {fds375287}
}

@article{fds375289,
   Author = {Reilly, CI},
   Title = {RUSSIAN ROULETTE: SPECULATION AND THE MEDICAL HUMANITIES IN
             VSEVOLOD IVANOV'S NOVEL y},
   Journal = {Slavic and East European Journal},
   Volume = {66},
   Number = {4},
   Pages = {518-537},
   Year = {2022},
   Month = {December},
   Abstract = {Vsevolod Ivanov's understudied novel y (1933) grasps the
             development of a non-Freudian psychic economy that grew from
             German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin's research on mental
             illness at the beginning of the twentieth century. The
             novel's economic postulations are as much a reflection of
             Stalin's planned economy as they are a commentary about the
             new kind of psychological metrics, which contained analogous
             possibilities for inflation, deflation, and speculation in
             the process of "psychic reconstruction" (psikhicheskaia
             peredelka) needed to make the New Soviet Man. In this
             article, I rely on Ivanov's work as a provocation for a new
             kind of reading within the Medical Humanities. I show that
             Vs emphasis on psychiatric subject matter says less about
             the validity of a particular psychiatric diagnosis than it
             does about the national, ideological, and
             scientifico-historical conditions that governed psychiatry's
             formation and conditioned its entry into medicine. While
             this approach may yield a fresh take on Ivanov's
             little-known and untranslated novel, it also makes a larger
             bid for treating the Russian Medical Humanities as an
             opportunity to explore how changing national boundaries,
             networks of scientific exchange, and models of
             disciplinarity are inseparable-not incidental-to the
             formation of medical concepts, themselves indebted to
             processes of narration.},
   Key = {fds375289}
}

@article{fds375290,
   Author = {Reilly, C},
   Title = {Neuromimesis: Picturing the Humanities Picturing the
             Brain.},
   Journal = {Frontiers in integrative neuroscience},
   Volume = {16},
   Pages = {760785},
   Year = {2022},
   Month = {January},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnint.2022.760785},
   Abstract = {What do neuroscientific visualizations of mental functioning
             depict? This article argues that neuroscientific imaging
             from Santiago Ramón y Cajal's pen and ink drawings onward
             falls within the mimetic tradition, that dealing with the
             artistic representation of reality. Cajal's iconic images of
             pyramidal neurons and glial cells surprisingly suggest a
             non-realist approach to picturing the brain and the mind
             that opens a new methodological link between humanities and
             neurosciences. In it, aesthetic works offer a perspective on
             mimetic practices in neurosciences, providing insight into
             representational strategies that make otherwise invisible
             psychic phenomena observable. This approach draws needed
             attention to the role of metaphor in neuroscientific
             research. It also reimagines how interdisciplinary
             scholarship might engage with works of art. While it is a
             common practice to read humanities objects featuring the
             brain and/or the mind in terms of their neuroscientific
             content, films like <i>The Headless Woman</i> (La mujer sin
             cabeza, dir. Martel, 2008), explored here, show that doing
             so can easily inhibit interpretations with greater
             explanatory bearing. Together, Cajal's images and Martel's
             film help elaborate a fresh methodological paradigm-distinct
             from that of neuropsychoanalysis-that situates aesthetic
             objects as a long-neglected tool for studying the brain by
             virtue of (not despite) their imaginative
             investments.},
   Doi = {10.3389/fnint.2022.760785},
   Key = {fds375290}
}

@article{fds375291,
   Author = {Reilly, CI},
   Title = {Digging the revolution: Andrey Platonov and the pit of
             progress},
   Journal = {College Literature},
   Volume = {48},
   Number = {3},
   Pages = {517-555},
   Year = {2021},
   Month = {June},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/LIT.2021.0019},
   Doi = {10.1353/LIT.2021.0019},
   Key = {fds375291}
}

@article{fds327561,
   Author = {Reilly, CI},
   Title = {Diagnosis and Revelation in Vsevolod Garshin's "The Red
             Flower" and Anton Chekhov's "An Attack of
             Nerves"},
   Journal = {Literature and Medicine},
   Volume = {31},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {277-302},
   Publisher = {Project MUSE},
   Year = {2013},
   Month = {September},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lm.2013.0011},
   Abstract = {<jats:p xml:lang="en">This article examines Vsevolod
             Garshin's 1883 story "The Red Flower" and Chekhov's 1888
             story "An Attack of Nerves" in light of contemporaneous work
             on diagnostic classificatory systems by the German
             neurologist Paul Julius Möbius and psychiatrist Emil
             Kraepelin. By situating these Russian stories within a
             German psychodiagnostic context, rather than seeing them in
             the tradition of the French experimental novel, it becomes
             possible to understand these stories not as single instances
             of illness revealing truth, but as narratives that
             simultaneously take on diagnosis in its social, medical and
             legal instantiations. Reading Chekhov's and Garshin's
             stories in this way opens up a new interpretive possibility:
             that diagnosis and self-diagnosis could form a model for a
             creative restructuring concerned less with "proof" than with
             multiple overlapping narratives of identification. Chekhov's
             and Garshin's tales illuminate how and when the question of
             what illness "reveals" can be subordinated to what reveals
             illness.</jats:p>},
   Doi = {10.1353/lm.2013.0011},
   Key = {fds327561}
}


%% Articles in a Collection   
@article{fds375286,
   Author = {Reilly, C},
   Title = {Psychoanalytic States: Translating from Freud to Lenin and
             Au-delà},
   Booktitle = {Translation and Universality: Sites of Struggle},
   Publisher = {Fordham University Press (Forthcoming Winter
             2024)},
   Editor = {Arnall, G and Chenoweth, K},
   Year = {2024},
   Month = {December},
   Key = {fds375286}
}

@article{fds327560,
   Author = {Reilly, C},
   Title = {Naturphilosophie and Murder: The Limits of Scientific
             Explanation in Döblin's Die beiden Freundinnen},
   Booktitle = {The Early History of Embodied Cognition 1740-1920 : The
             Lebenskraft-debate and Radical Reality in German Science,
             Music, and Literature},
   Publisher = {Brill/Rodopi},
   Editor = {McCarthy, JA and Hilger, SM and Sullivan, HI},
   Year = {2016},
   ISBN = {9789004309029},
   url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004309036},
   Doi = {10.1163/9789004309036},
   Key = {fds327560}
}