Author: Eleanor Bowen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000862453
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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Examining historical, clinical and artistic material, in both written and visual form, this book traces the figure of the contemporary hysteric as she rebels against the impossible demands made upon her. Exploring five traits that commonly characterise the hysteric as an archetype – a specific body, mimetic abilities, a shroud of mystery, a propensity to disappear and a particular relationship to voice – the authors shed light on what it means to be hysterical, as a form of rebellion and resistance. This is important reading for scholars of sociology, gender studies, cultural studies and visual studies with interests in psychoanalysis, art and the characterisation of mental illness.
Author: Rachel Mesch
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826515315
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Brings into relief a critical relationship between the female mind and body that is essential to understanding the discursive position of the turn-of-the-century woman writer. This book includes novels that confront this mind/body problem through a wide variety of styles and genres that challenge conventional fin-de-siecle notions of femininity.
Author: Juliet Flower MacCannell
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816632954
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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How can a girl become a woman today without being either a victim or a manipulator? Reflecting on this question, MacCannell takes us for the first time beyond the flawed models for becoming a woman left to us by Freud and Sade.
Author: Nelly Arcan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927380963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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"A young woman recounts her ill-fated love affair with a man who was all wrong for her from the beginning."--Publisher's description.
Author: Nitza Yarom
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781583917589
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Nitza Yarom looks at psychoanalysis in many different ways.
Author: Christopher Bollas
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415220330
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Bollas offers an original and illuminating theory of hysteria that weaves its well-known features - repressed sexual ideas; indifference to conversions; over-identification with the other - into the hysteric form.
Author: Johanna Braun
Publisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 946270211X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender liberation, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and climate change, to name only a few. Against the backdrop of such recent deployments of hysteria in popular discourse––particularly as they emerge in times of material and hermeneutic crisis––Performing Hysteria re-engages the notion of “hysteria”. Performing Hysteria rigorously mines late 20th- and early 21st-century (primarily visual) culture for signs of hysteria. The various essays in this volume contribute to the multilayered and complex discussions that surround and foster this resurgent interest in hysteria––covering such areas as art, literature, theatre, film, television, dance; crossing such disciplines as cultural studies, political science, philosophy, history, media, disability, race and ethnicity, and gender studies; and analysing stereotypical images and representations of the hysteric in relation to cultural sciences and media studies. Of particular importance is the volume's insistence on taking the intersection of hysteria and performance seriously.
Author: Sander L. Gilman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520309936
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 502
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"She's hysterical." For centuries, the term "hysteria" has been used by physicians and laymen to diagnose and dismiss the extreme emotionality and mysterious physical disorders presumed to bedevil others—especially women. How did this medical concept assume its power? What cultural purposes does it serve? Why do different centuries and different circumstances produce different kinds of hysteria? These are among the questions pursued in this absorbing, erudite reevaluation of the history of hysteria. The widely respected authors draw upon the insights of social and cultural history, rather than Freudian psychoanalysis, to examine the ways in which hysteria has been conceived by doctors and patients, writers and artists, in Europe and North America, from antiquity to the early years of the twentieth century. In so doing, they show that a history of hysteria is a history of how we understand the mind. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Author: Hannah Baker Saltmarsh
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820359017
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Hysterical Water is a collection of fierce, funny, feminist poems, prose poems, and essays with poems woven through them, all connected by threads associated with female “hysteria” and motherhood. Hannah Baker Saltmarsh troubles the historic pseudodiagnostic term hysteria as both a constraining mode used to contain and silence women and as a mode that oddly freed women to behave outside the bounds of social norms. The poems in this collection question the way maternal thinking, sexuality, affect, and creativity have been dismissed as hysterical. Saltmarsh reclaims the word hysteria by arguing that women poets might, in art as in life, celebrate incongruous emotional experiences. Drawing on and reshaping an intriguing array of source materials, Saltmarsh borrows from the language of uncontrollable emotion, excess, cure, remedy, and cult-like obsession to give shape not only to the maternal body but also to a hysterical textual one. She revisits selective silence and selective speech in everyday crises of feelings, engages meaningful “anticommunication” through odd gestures and symbols, and indulges in nonsensical dream-speak, among other tactics, to carve a feminist poetics of madness out of the masculinist discourse that has located in the woman the hysteric.
Author: Ernst Kretschmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hysteria
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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