Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1843) is one of the most important German poets. Actual research into his life and work has shown new aspects in his thinking concerning questions about subjectivity, sense of life and psychosis. We follow these lines using a hermeneutical method. In his late poems the experience of schizophrenic alienation appears metaphorically speaking like an ebbing of a former plenitude of meanings or as if he were decentered from his own life. Hölderlin names it an "uninvolved" view onto the ordinary life. Hölderlin invites and enables us via his offer for an innerperspective understanding of the schizophrenic experience of alienation to deal fairly and respectfully with schizophrenic patients as if we were "alienists" (E. Straus).
Dichter, Patient, Mensch
Friedrich Hölderlin steht wie niemand sonst in der deutschen Literatur für das Klischee vom wahnsinnigen Genie. Jann E. Schlimme und Uwe Gonther – beide Psychiater, beide ausgewiesene Hölderlinexperten – befragen die Quellen, um sein Leben in der sogenannten »Turmzeit« zu verstehen, anstatt sie psychopathologisch zu deuten:
Wie sah Hölderlin sich selbst, wie beschrieben ihn die Menschen, die ihm nahestanden? Wie schilderten ihn die Ärzte seiner Zeit? Und sie setzen diese Zeugnisse in Beziehung zu den zahlreichen posthumen diagnostischen Versuchen. Schlimme und Gonther kommen zu einem anderen, neuen Verständnis: Psychotische Krise und mühevolle Genesung? Ja. Umnachtung? Nein.
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