Empathetic Reform and the Psychedelic Aesthetic
Women's Accounts of LSD Therapy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3856016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lana Cook (0009-0009-0905-4850, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 79-111 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Configurations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1063-1801 • E-ISSN: 1080-6520 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/con.2014.0002 |
| OpenAlex | W2085546597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 9 |
Both written under pseudonym, Constance Newland's My Self and I (1962) and Jane Dunlap's Exploring Inner Space (1961) are firsthand accounts of psychedelic drug use taken in therapeutic research settings that demonstrate how women's access to discursive legitimacy was negotiated in mid-twentieth-century life-writing. Newland and Dunlap use realism to connect readers to their psychedelic subjects, while estranging readers' familiar worldviews through metaphor. Through reader recognition and estrangement, Newland and Dunlap develop readers' empathy as a reformist tool to challenge standard narratives of literature and science and carve out new representational space for alternative states of consciousness
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Empathy · Legitimacy · Literature · Metaphor · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Pseudonym · Psychoanalysis · Realism · Sociology · Visual arts · Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |