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Hysteria today / by Anouchka Grose.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grose, Anouchka, author.
- Series:
- Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research library.
- Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hysteria.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (139 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hysteria, one of the most diagnosed conditions in human history, is also one of the most problematic. Can it even be said to exist at all? Since the earliest medical texts people have had something to say about 'feminine complaints'. Over the centuries, theorisations of the root causes have lurched from the physiological to the psychological to the socio-political. Thanks to its dual association with femininity and with fakery, the notion of hysteria inevitably provokes questions about women, men, sex, bodies, minds, culture, happiness and unhappiness. To some, it may seem extraordinary that such a contested diagnosis could continue to merit any mention whatsoever.Hysteria Today is a collection of essays whose purpose is to reopen the case for hysteria and to see what relevance, if any, the term may have within contemporary clinical practice.
- Contents:
- chapter 1 Hysterics today / Leonardo S. Rodríguez
- chapter 2 Hysteria today / Darian Leader
- chapter 3 Beyond queer? / Anne Worthington
- chapter 4 Necessity and seduction: a section of hysteria / Vincent Dachy
- chapter 55 shades of literary success: the vampire’s appeal / Geneviève Morel
- chapter 6 Hysteria, a hystory / Colette Soler
- chapter 7 … As if I did not know … (Allurement) / Vincent Dachy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 25, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 0-429-91467-9
- 0-429-90044-9
- 0-429-47567-5
- 1-78241-351-0
- 9780429475672
- OCLC:
- 934910598
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