The title is a very basic representation of what’s inside, it is strange enough to draw the reader’s attention, after all it is a pretty weird story to say, “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” But it is also one of the most representative of the fact that it is a collection of neurological cases because it actually implies something being wrong with the brain, while other titles such as “The Lost Mariner”, “The Disembodied Lady”, “Witty Ticcy Ray”, “The Dog Beneath the Skin”, and “Rebecca” may convey a completely different impression on the reader.
“But the real poignancy, the horror, would occur when his wife brought him back—brought him, in a fantastic and unaccountable manner (so he felt), to a strange home he had never seen, full …show more content…
Is there any way of bridging this chasm?”(Sacks 147) “What awaits our study is equally pleasing to the heart and mind, and, as such, especially incites the impulse to Luria’s ‘romantic science’.”(Sacks 174) “And in this way, Rebecca, at nineteen, was still, as her grandmother said, ‘just like a child’. Like a child, but not a child, because she was adult. (The term ‘retarded suggests a persisting child, the term ‘mentally defective’ a defective adult; both terms, both concepts, combine deep truth and falsity.)”(Sacks 184) “When I wrote this piece, and the two succeeding ones, I wrote solely out of my own experience, with almost no knowledge of the literature on the subject, indeed with no knowledge that there was a large literature.”(Sacks 192) “These include ‘negative’ characteristics, such as derivativeness and stereotypy, and ‘positive’ ones, such as an unusual capacity for delayed rendition, and for rendering the object as perceived (not as conceived): hence the sort of inspired naïveté especially …show more content…
is a teacher and while she starts out saying that he is compassionate to every section before them, she points out that she believes that Dr. Sacks wrote the section, “The World of the Simple” with preconceptions about the people he called simple. While it is stated in his introduction to that section that he originally believed it would be dismal, he explains that his comrade gives him a better understanding of how complex and important their world is. She does make a point about how he didn’t treat Rebecca as he said he would with no preconceptions, such as calling her an “idiot Ecclesiastes”(Sacks 180) the article sums up her opinion as, “For this reason, I can't wholeheartedly recommend The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, interesting as it is. It sums up many of the concepts we discussed in class (like the importance of proprioception) beautifully, but gives others (like the realities of "simple" people) an overly simplistic treatment. Maybe that's why the book's subtitle is "and Other Clinical Tales;" Sacks excels at describing the medical symptoms and problems his patients might face, their difficulties in being perceived as "normal," but is sometimes less successful at describing the lives behind the symptoms without resorting to stereotype.”(Anna M.) She makes good points on how he is clever but not as compassionate as he makes himself out to
“But the real poignancy, the horror, would occur when his wife brought him back—brought him, in a fantastic and unaccountable manner (so he felt), to a strange home he had never seen, full …show more content…
Is there any way of bridging this chasm?”(Sacks 147) “What awaits our study is equally pleasing to the heart and mind, and, as such, especially incites the impulse to Luria’s ‘romantic science’.”(Sacks 174) “And in this way, Rebecca, at nineteen, was still, as her grandmother said, ‘just like a child’. Like a child, but not a child, because she was adult. (The term ‘retarded suggests a persisting child, the term ‘mentally defective’ a defective adult; both terms, both concepts, combine deep truth and falsity.)”(Sacks 184) “When I wrote this piece, and the two succeeding ones, I wrote solely out of my own experience, with almost no knowledge of the literature on the subject, indeed with no knowledge that there was a large literature.”(Sacks 192) “These include ‘negative’ characteristics, such as derivativeness and stereotypy, and ‘positive’ ones, such as an unusual capacity for delayed rendition, and for rendering the object as perceived (not as conceived): hence the sort of inspired naïveté especially …show more content…
is a teacher and while she starts out saying that he is compassionate to every section before them, she points out that she believes that Dr. Sacks wrote the section, “The World of the Simple” with preconceptions about the people he called simple. While it is stated in his introduction to that section that he originally believed it would be dismal, he explains that his comrade gives him a better understanding of how complex and important their world is. She does make a point about how he didn’t treat Rebecca as he said he would with no preconceptions, such as calling her an “idiot Ecclesiastes”(Sacks 180) the article sums up her opinion as, “For this reason, I can't wholeheartedly recommend The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat, interesting as it is. It sums up many of the concepts we discussed in class (like the importance of proprioception) beautifully, but gives others (like the realities of "simple" people) an overly simplistic treatment. Maybe that's why the book's subtitle is "and Other Clinical Tales;" Sacks excels at describing the medical symptoms and problems his patients might face, their difficulties in being perceived as "normal," but is sometimes less successful at describing the lives behind the symptoms without resorting to stereotype.”(Anna M.) She makes good points on how he is clever but not as compassionate as he makes himself out to