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The Puerto Rican syndrome / Patricia Gherovici.
Van Pelt Library RC451.5.P84 G48 2003
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LIBRA RC451.5.P84 G48 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gherovici, Patricia.
- Series:
- Cultural studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puerto Ricans--Mental health.
- Puerto Ricans.
- Puerto Ricans--Mental health--United States.
- Hysteria.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Hysteria--history.
- Puerto Rico.
- Hispanic or Latino.
- Mental Disorders--diagnosis.
- Mental Disorders--ethnology.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hysteria--history.
- Puerto Rico.
- Hispanic or Latino.
- Mental Disorders--diagnosis.
- Mental Disorders--ethnology.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 296 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Other Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Ghettorics of hysteria: Lacan and the states of the other America
- Hysteria strikes back
- Hysteria invents psychoanalysis
- Lacan and the hysterization of psychoanalysis
- The invention of a Lacanian hysteria
- Hysteria, the most sublime
- Where have all the hysterics gone?
- What is the Puerto Rican syndrome?
- Why a Puerto Rican syndrome?
- The Puerto Rican syndrome, anger and justice
- Ataque: defensive violence?
- From attacks to dreams: on some realizations of desire
- Blocking the Hispanic unconscious: subjectivity and subjection
- Re-writing the Philadelphia story
- From Alaska to Puerto Rico: the letter always arrives at its destination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-284) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1897 Book Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1892746751
- OCLC:
- 51764641
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