"Falling into Depression" in Graphic Medicine: The Making of Graphic Personal Iconographies of the Emotional Bodily Experience in Chute Libre" | ||
| مجلة کلية الأداب - جامعة حلوان | ||
| Article 8, Volume 60, Issue 2 - Serial Number 60, January 2025, Pages 279-302 PDF (993.96 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/kgef.2024.305977.1225 | ||
| Author | ||
| Sarah Yousri* | ||
| كلية الآداب - جامعة حلوان | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study examines how graphic medicine contributes to creating what can be termed graphic iconography of the emotional bodily experience of mental illness. I focus on highlighting the role of visual metaphors of the body, and bodily feelings, in forming iconographies of the metaphorical conception of “falling into depression” in the French comics artist Mademoiselle Caroline’s memoir of depression Chute Libre: Carnets Du Gouffre (2013). I build my analysis upon the British physician and comics artist Ian Williams’ notions of the “unofficial iconography” of illness in graphic medicine, as well as George Lakoff’s and Mark Johnson’s mappings of conceptual metaphors. I further employ Elizabeth El Refaie’s new taxonomy of visual metaphors to examine how graphic medicine of mental illness, as a visuo-textual form of storytelling, creates a new chapter in the history of the “iconography of illness”, specifically, of how the body feels in the emotional experience of mental illness. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Visual Metaphor; Depression; Graphic Medicine; Iconography of Mental Illness; Embodied Conceptual Metaphor | ||
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