Epilepsy Metaphors

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Acknowledgments No access Pages 7 - 8
Introduction No access Pages 9 - 18
I.A Falling Asleep: The Stigma of Epilepsy in History No access Pages 21 - 38
I.B American Literature: From Stigma to Metaphor? No access Pages 39 - 54
I.C Ableist Metaphors: Historical Motifs and Normalcy No access Pages 55 - 66
II.A Jürgen Link and Michel Foucault: Symptomatic Signification of Proto- and Flexmetaphors No access Pages 69 - 80
II.B George Canguilhem: Vital Materiality and Relational Metaphors No access Pages 81 - 94
II.C Gilbert Simondon: Transindividual Metastability and Conceptual Metaphors No access Pages 95 - 112
III.A Metaphor and Society: Proto- and Flexmetaphors and Calculated Individuation No access Pages 115 - 156
III.B Metaphor and Materiality: The Relational Body and Its Electric Individuation No access Pages 157 - 190
III.C Metaphor and Idioms: Siri Hustvedt''s Metastable Rhetoric as Transindividuation No access Pages 191 - 234
Conclusion No access Pages 235 - 238
Bibliography No access Pages 239 - 256