LITERATURĂ ȘI MEDICINĂ – PATOLOGIZAREA SYLVIEI PLATH
LITERATURE AND MEDICINE – PATHOLOGIZING SYLVIA PLATH

Summary/Abstract: In the first decades after Sylvia Plath’s premature death, some critical voices forged an intensely reductionist approach to her work, insisting on the biographical element; this type of reading echoed vastly across the critical tradition established around her writings. Beyond the great difficulties caused by the Plath Estate, who imposed a strict regimen on potential Plath biographers, the critics who discussed her work also created a tradition of diagnosing Plath on the basis of her literary writings. Lately, a counter-current has gained prominence, denouncing the critical practice of pathologizing Plath, favoring readings that reevaluate the paradigm of psychiatric disability in connection to her poetic oeuvre and her only novel, The Bell Jar.

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