Chapter IX

1 Cotard, J., ‘Du délire hypocondriaque dans une forme grave de la mélancholie anxieuse’, Annales Médico-Psychologiques, 4, 1880, pp. 168–74. For translation see Berrios, G., and Luque, R., ‘Cotard’s “On hypochondriacal delusions in a severe form of anxious melancholia”’, History of Psychiatry, 10(38), 1999, pp. 269–78.

2 Burton, ‘Music a Remedy’, The Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. 2, p. 115.

3 See Förstl, H., and Beats, B., ‘Charles Bonnet’s Description of Cotard’s Delusion and Reduplicative Paramnesia in an Elderly Patient (1788)’, British Journal of Psychiatry, 160, 1992, p. 417.

4 See Pearn, J., and Gardner-Thorpe, C., ‘A Biographical note on Marcel Proust’s Professor Cottard’, Journal of Medical Biography, 11(2), 2003, pp. 103–6, on comparisons between two characters.

5 Proust, Marcel, In Search of Lost Time, II: Within a Budding Grove, trans. C. F. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, revised D. J. Enright, 1992 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1981; revision 1992; repr. London: Vintage, 2005), pp. 4−5.

6 Ibid.

7 Ritti, A., Eloge du Docteur Jules Cotard (from a letter read at the annual public lecture of the Société Médico-Psychologiques, 30 April 1894) (Paris: Imprimerie de la Cour d’Appel, 1894), pp. 1–10.

8 Jacobi, Maximillian, On the Construction and Management of Hospitals for the Insane, trans. John Kitching (London: J. Churchill, 1841).

9 Cotard, Jules, ‘Du délire des négations’, Archives de Neurologie, 11, 1882. For the English translation see Heller-Roazen, Daniel, ‘Phantoms: Bodies without organs’, Cabinet, 25, 2007, cabinetmagazine.org/issues/25/heller-roazen.php (accessed 31 January 2022).

10 Hussey, Andrew, Paris: The Secret History (London: Viking, 2006).

11 See Knowlson, James, Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett (London: Bloomsbury, 1997), p. 208, as cited by Fifield, P., ‘Beckett, Cotard’s Syndrome and the Narrative Patient’, Journal of Beckett Studies, 17(1–2), 2008, pp. 169–86.

12 Sacks, Oliver, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (London: Picador, 1985), p. 2.

13 Berrios G., and Luque R., ‘Cotard’s Delusion or Syndrome: A Conceptual History’, Comprehensive Psychiatry, 36(3), 1995, p. 218.