Word: sanitorium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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EVENTUALLY, CLARA COLLAPSES at work; the doctor diagnoses incipient T.B. and prescribes six months at a government sanitorium in the mountains. In a prise de conscience precipitated by her husband's violent jealousy and his insistence that she sleep with him despite her illness, Clara realizes that if she doesn't look after her needs no one else will and goes off to the mountains in the face of her family's adamant disapproval. The sanitorium itself is a welfare state Magic Mountain, set in Alpine grandeur that enables De Sica to display the saccharine cinematography that made his Garden...
...home in Milan: on the other her new perspective depends not on a fresh understanding forged through her own efforts, but on a stroke of fortune that momentarily allows her to escape the prison of her class. Not only is her enthusiastic reception by the wealthy women at the sanitorium and her effortless shift of identity unrealistic, but there is no more substantial self- awareness in her new personality than in the old, notwithstanding the director's apparent intentions. Her love affair is surely no more profound and emotionally fulfilling a relationship than her marriage, as she simply embraces...
...illustrates the modern dichotomy between what Heidegger called the "I", the real self, and the "one", the anonymous, social self, the role. Trained as a lawyer, Kafka speaks in legal metaphors like those in The Trial of the oppressions of life and disease. He discusses fleeing to a sanitorium for a "reprieve" or speaks of doctors as "barristers...