@article{ref1,
title="[Heinrich von Kleist--crisis and creative overcoming]",
journal="Psychiatrische Praxis",
year="2001",
author="Schlimme, J.",
volume="28",
number="5",
pages="230-234",
abstract="Heinrich von Kleist's life was shaken repeatedly by negative life-events, finally he committed suicide in his last life-crisis (1811). His work was mostly understood as descriptions of negative life-events and failed-being. In this article it will be shown that in at least two &quot;crises&quot; Kleist's work can be understood as a creative overcome of those. Kleist shows in his &quot;Essay to Find a Sure Way to Happiness&quot; (1799) his way of solving his &quot;Soldier-Crisis&quot; (1798), a depressive episode. In &quot;The Broken Jug&quot; (1802 - 1805) he shows the implications of a philosophical problem experienced in his &quot;Kant-Crisis&quot; (1801) and offers chances to overcome this particular crisis, which still seems to be an actual problem of ourselves. Though his crises must be understood as depressive episodes, at least the &quot;Kant-Crisis&quot; with its connections to philosophical and artistical matters seems to be more complicated than a simple depressive syndrome. Kleist formulates his basic life-experience, to be repeatedly shaken by &quot;crises&quot; respectively depressive episodes and the necessity to overcome each in a new way of living.<p /><p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0303-4259",
doi="10.1055/s-2001-15576",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2001-15576"
}