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In this innovative and ambitious study, Bernadette Höfer explores how Surin, Molière, Lafayette, and Racine reverse the Cartesian conception of the dominance of the rational and propose instead a dramatic interconnection of body and mind. The author analyzes early modern medical and philosophical treatises, as well as contemporary medical compilations, to demonstrate that these seventeenth-century French writers fully anticipated current thought regarding psychosomatic illness.

Thematology --- French literature --- Psychological study of literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- Mind and body in literature. --- Mental illness in literature. --- Littérature française --- Esprit et corps dans la littérature --- Maladies mentales dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Psychological aspects. --- Histoire et critique --- Aspect psychologique --- French literature. --- French literature - 17th century - History and criticism. --- French literature - Psychological aspects. --- Mental illness in literature --- Medicine in Literature --- Psychophysiologic Disorders --- History, 17th Century --- Literature --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Neurologic Manifestations --- Humanities --- History --- Signs and Symptoms --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Diseases --- French Literature --- Romance Literatures --- Languages & Literatures --- History and criticism --- Psychological aspects --- Littérature française --- Esprit et corps dans la littérature --- Maladies mentales dans la littérature