Mapping Happiness in Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq

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Van Harskamp, Marco Jaya (2019)

Mapping Happiness in Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq

Master thesis | Literary Studies (MA)

Different ideas on happiness in the novel Serotonin can be recognized. Ideas of the philosophers Comte and Schopenhauer are connected to the contemporary use of anti-depressants, the notion of suicide and the role of women in society. Freudian elements with regards to the oral phase can also be recognized in the novel.