[Suicide in the literary work of Walker Percy].
Suicidality is one of the most serious unsolved problems of modern psychiatry. The psychological analysis of the behavioral and meaning patterns of suicide in the work of W. Percy gives the opportunity to a better and wider understanding of this phenomenon. In the suicide discussion, Percy points out the primary human need of transcendence and symbolization and the meaning of the "experience on the border" with its sense inducing character.
Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie der Universität Bonn. Barbara.Hawellek@ukb.uni-bonn.de
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D005086:Existentialism; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008091:Literature; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology*