TY - JOUR AU - Simonazzi, Mauro PY - 2016/03/11 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Bernard Mandeville on hypochondria and self-liking JF - Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics JA - EJPE VL - 9 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.23941/ejpe.v9i1.213 UR - https://ejpe.org/journal/article/view/213 SP - 62-81 AB - <p>This article analyses how Mandeville's <em>Treatise of the hypochodriack and hysterick passions</em> (1711) was received in the medical environment, and I show that this work, in spite of being unusual and of a satirical nature, was seriously read and studied by eighteenth-century physicians. In the second part I will describe hypochondria as it is intended in the <em>Treatise</em>, with particular attention to talking therapy. In the third part I will show that in the <em>Fable of the bees</em> and in the <em>Enquiry into the origin of honour</em> hypochondria is associated with a frustration of the desire to be esteemed, and that in light of the theory of self-liking expressed in the <em>Fable</em>, it is possible to account for talking therapy’s effectiveness as theorised in the <em>Treatise</em>.</p> ER -