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The Knotted Subject : Hysteria and Its Discontents /

Surrealist writer Andre 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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Autor principal: Bronfen, Elisabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1998]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1: The Hysterical Subject of Theory
  • Part 2: History's Hysterias
  • Part 3: Hysteria's Case Histories
  • Part 4: Performing Hysteria
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.