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The Knotted Subject : Hysteria and Its Discontents /
Surrealist writer André Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken fo...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2014]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
383 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PART ONE: THE HYSTERICAL SUBJECT OF THEORY
- INTRODUCTION. Navel Inversions
- CHAPTER 1. The Navel of Sigmund Freud's Inaugural Dream
- PART TWO: HISTORY'S HYSTERIAS
- CHAPTER 2. Medicine's Hysteria Romance: Is It History or Legend?
- CHAPTER 3. Gothic Hysterics: Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
- CHAPTER 4. Jean-Martin Charcot's Vampires
- PART THREE: HYSTERIA'S CASE HISTORIES
- CHAPTER 5. Turnings of Nostalgia: Sigmund Freud, Karl Jaspers, Pierre Janet
- CHAPTER 6. Anne Sexton's Business of Writing Suicide
- CHAPTER 7. "You Freud, Me Jane": Alfred Hitchcock's Mamie, the Case History Revisited
- PART FOUR: PERFORMING HYSTERIA
- CHAPTER 8. A Womb of One's Own, or the Strange Case of David Cronenberg
- CHAPTER 9. Beyond Hysteria: Cindy Sherman's Private Theater of Horror
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- About the Author