[The short novel "The jealous Estremaduran", an example of Cervantes' psychopathology].
The Cervantinie short novel "The Jealous Estremaduran" describes with poetic liberty the senile jealousy-imagination of a man nearly 80 years old towards his 15-year-old new bride. The preposterous, patholplastic forms of this jealousy-phantasm make the main figure of the short novel, the old man Carrizales, his absurd, fantastie plans of a hermetical isolation of his wife from the outside-world a reality. CERVANTES describes in his novel, without the noxa alcohol playing any part though, a state of affairs which is similar to the symptoms of the chronic jealousy-phantasm of the alcoholic who only has in his mind's eye the sheer wish to possess his partner. These details prescribed in a person with a pathological derangement, which show CERVANTES as an excellent psychopathologist among the poets, are examined and analysed.
D005197:Famous Persons; D049670:History, 17th Century; D007578:Jealousy; D008093:Literature, Modern; D008393:Marriage; D011599:Psychopathology / Q000266:history*; D013030:Spain
Die Novelle "Der eifersüchtige Estremadurer", ein Beispiel cervantinischer Psychopathologie