Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History by Francis O'Gorman

Author:Francis O'Gorman [O'Gorman, Francis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-05-21T03:00:00+00:00

1For an unforgettable account of a memory that could not be repressed, see Patricia van Tighem, The Bear’s Embrace: A True Story of Surviving a Grizzly Bear Attack (Vancouver: Greystone, 2000). The role of memory and repression in recovering from near-death experiences was discussed stimulatingly in http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/09/life-after-near-death (last accessed January 30, 2014).

2[Anonymous], Don’t Worry, by the author of A Country Parson (New York: Caldwell, 1900?), pp. 13, 15.

3Woolf, To the Lighthouse, p. 34.

4Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, 2 vols (London: Smith Elder, 1874), i.217.

5Eric Berne’s Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships (1964) is still widely read. The International Transaction Society, which promotes his analytical tools, can be discovered through http://www.itaaworld.org/ (last accessed January 23, 2014).

6[Anonymous], Conquering Fear and Worry, Live Successfully! Book Number 3 (London: Odhams, c. 1938), p. 8.

7Marden, The Conquest of Worry, p. 3.

8Sadler, Worry and Nervousness, pp. 305–6.

9Robert L. Leahy, The Worry Cure: Stop Worrying and Start Living (London: Piaktus, 2005), p. 51.

10Ibid., p. 163.

11Ibid., p. 164.

12Ibid.

13This idea is admirably discussed in Derek Attridge, The Singularity of Literature (London: Routledge, 2004).

14Quoted in Kathleen Norris, The Noonday Demon: A Modern Woman’s Struggle with Soul-Weariness (London: Lion, 2008), p. 13.

15“The Perfect Critic” (1920), most easily available in Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot, ed. Frank Kermode (London: Faber, 1975), pp. 50–8 (p. 55).

16There is a provocative study of the role of what we don’t know in Stuart Firestein’s Ignorance: How It Drives Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012).

17An admirable literary study of this is Pamela Thurschwell, Literature, Technology and Magical Thinking, 1880–1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).

18“‘Grand’mère, grand’mère,’ comme Orphée, resté seul, repeté le nom de la morte,” Marcel Proust, Le côté de Guermantes (Première partie), édition du texte, introduction, bibliographie par Elyane Dezon-Jones ([Paris]: Flammarion, 1987), p. 150. My translation.

19 The Tempest, 1:2:295–7.

20Bentall, Madness Explained, p. 100.

21Figures and details from Bentall, Madness Explained, p. 103.

22Adam Phillips, Going Sane (London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005), p. 184.

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