[The short novel "The jealous Estremaduran", an example of Cervantes' psychopathology].

The Cervantinie short novel "The Jealous Estremaduran" describes with poetic liberty the senile jealousy-imagination of a man nearly 80 years old towards his 15-year-old new bride. The preposterous, patholplastic forms of this jealousy-phantasm make the main figure of the short novel, the old man Carrizales, his absurd, fantastie plans of a hermetical isolation of his wife from the outside-world a reality. CERVANTES describes in his novel, without the noxa alcohol playing any part though, a state of affairs which is similar to the symptoms of the chronic jealousy-phantasm of the alcoholic who only has in his mind's eye the sheer wish to possess his partner. These details prescribed in a person with a pathological derangement, which show CERVANTES as an excellent psychopathologist among the poets, are examined and analysed.