Exit weeping : understanding suicide through the study of famous suicides

215 Pages·2008·11.726 MB·English

by  Lester, David

E W :
XIT EEPING
U S
NDERSTANDING UICIDE THROUGH
THE STUDY OF FAMOUS SUICIDES

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E W :
XIT EEPING
U S
NDERSTANDING UICIDE THROUGH
THE STUDY OF FAMOUS SUICIDES

DAVID LESTER

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Exit weeping : understanding suicide through the study of famous suicides / David Lester, editor.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-62081-493-2 (eBook)
1. Suicide--Case studies. 2. Suicide victims--Biography. 3. Suicide--Psychological aspects. 4.
Entertainers--Suicidal behavior. 5. Celebrities--Suicidal behavior. I. Lester, David, 1942-
HV6545.E95 2008
616.85'844509--dc22
2008013243

Published by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (cid:30) New York
This book is dedicated to Vicki

CONTENTS

Preface ix

Chapter 1 Diane Arbus: Photographer of Freaks 1

Chapter 2 Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Rational Suicide
of an Early Feminist 7

Chapter 3 Dora Carrington: In Love with a Homosexual 11

Chapter 4 Thomas Chatterton: Writing under an Alias 15

Chapter 5 Vladimir Kovalevskii: A Marriage of Convenience 19

Chapter 6 Crown Prince Rudolph: A Prince without Power 25

Chapter 7 Kurt Cobain: From Nirvana to Nirvana 31

Chapter 8 Jerzy Kosinski: Inventing a Life 37

Chapter 9 Joseph Goebbels: Hitler's Favorite 45

Chapter 10 Sir Henry Delves Broughton: The Murder Sensation of 1941 51

Chapter 11 Phil Ochs: Not as Successful as Bob Dylan 55

Chapter 12 Viscount Castlereagh: Even Paranoids Have Real Enemies 63

Chapter 13 Primo Levi: Survivor of Auschwitz but Not Old Age 69

Chapter 14 The Luxtons: Back to Nature 75

Chapter 15 Robert Maxwell: Suicide or Murder? 79

Chapter 16 François Genoud: Banker for the Nazis 87
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Chapter 17 Eleanor Marx: Daddy's Girl 89

Chapter 18 Paul Bern: Hollywood Movie Producer 95

Chapter 19 Victor Tausk: Freud's Pupil 99

Chapter 20 Povl Bang-Jensen: Death at the UN 105

Chapter 21 Stephen Ward: Victim of Hypocrisy 109

Chapter 22 Simone Weil: A Most Difficult Person 115

Chapter 23 Virginia Woolf: Another Bloomsbury Suicide 121

Chapter 24 Gabrielle Russier: A Miscarriage of Justice in France 127

Chapter 25 Vladimir Mayakovsky: Soviet Poet 133

Chapter 26 O. Hobart Mowrer: President of the American
Psychological Association 137

Chapter 27 Jo Roman: Planning a Rational Suicide 145

Chapter 28 Cesare Pavese: An Absurd Vice 149

Chapter 29 Ernest Hemingway: Macho Man 157

Chapter 30 Yukio Mishima: Seppuku 169

Chapter 31 What Have We Learned? 177

Bibliography 183

References 185

Appendix Jerzy Feliks Urman: "I'm Not Even a Grown-Up" 187

Index 189