Ulf Olsson. Jag blir galen: Strindberg, vansinnet och vetenskapen.(Book Review)

From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Stockholm/Stehag: Brutus Ostlings Bokforlag Symposion, 2002.

In a chapter of Inferno (1897) entitled "Purgatoire," August Strindberg describes what appears to be an anxiety attack with ensuing paranoid hallucinations: "I am poisoned.... What shall I do? Go to the police? No! for if I can adduce no proofs they will shut me up as a lunatic.... For three hours I lie awake with open eyes to which sleep refuses to come; then a feeling of uneasiness takes possession of me; I am exposed to an electric current which passes to and fro between the two adjoining rooms. The nervous ...

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