RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Traum, Physiologie, Biographie. Jean Pauls Schreiblabor
JF Monatshefte
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 155
OP 179
DO 10.1353/mon.2012.0030
VO 104
IS 2
A1 Loescher, Jens
YR 2012
UL http://mon.uwpress.org/content/104/2/155.abstract
AB This article points at the historical constellation of Johannes von Müller’s and Johann Evangelista Pukinje’s physiological discourse on the one hand and Jean Paul’s refl ections on writing as a corporeal act and its productive effects on the other. Subjective images’ (‘subjektive Bilder’), dreams, the concomitance of handwriting and brainwriting are topics that Jean Paul, the reading expert on novel discourses in medicine, addresses. The evolving writing strategies can be tracked in numerous manuscripts by the author’s hand; an early one from the “Satiren” will be presented here. Finally, the article deals with the complex interplay of literal productivity and the cognitive effects of writing—so significant in the case of a ‘paper worker’ who has produced more than 10,000 pages of aesthetic value in his life. (JL; in German)