Justus Liebig University Giessen, Professor for Contemporary History, Historical Institute, Giessen, Germany.
J Sleep Res. 2023 Dec;32(6):e14034. doi: 10.1111/jsr.14034. Epub 2023 Sep 21.
Using the example of the fin-de-siècle German Reich, this article outlines how insomnia emerged as a "disease of civilisation" in an industrialising society, defined by time-specific notions, reflecting and strengthening the social norms of the time. Furthermore, it analyses the process of individualisation and flexibilisation that transferred the social struggles and economic demands of modernity onto the subject's body or soul. The history of insomnia around 1900 thus reveals a pattern of thought that shaped the understanding of the insomniac throughout the 20th century.
本文以 19 世纪末的德意志帝国为例，概述了在工业化社会中，失眠是如何作为一种“文明病”出现的，它具有特定于时代的概念，反映并强化了当时的社会规范。此外，本文还分析了个体化和灵活化的过程，即将现代性的社会斗争和经济需求转移到主体的身体或灵魂上的过程。因此，1900 年前后的失眠史揭示了一种思维模式，这种模式塑造了整个 20 世纪对失眠者的理解。
