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The British Journal of Psychiatry 160: 511-518 (1992)
© 1992 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Art imitates life: Deja vu experiences in prose and poetry

HN Sno, DH Linszen and F de Jonghe
Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic, Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

the deja vu experience is a subjective phenomenon that has been described in many novels and poems. Here we review over 20 literary descriptions. These accounts are consistent with the data obtained from psychiatric literature, including various phenomenological, aetiological and psychopathogenetic aspects of the deja vu experience. The explanations, explicitly formulated by creative authors, include reincarnation, dreams, organic factors and unconscious memories. Not infrequently, an association with defence or organic factors is demonstrable on the basis of psychoanalytic or clinical psychiatric interpretation. The authors recommend that psychiatrists be encouraged to overstep the limits of psychiatric literature and read prose and poetry as well.


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