The Knotted Subject : Hysteria and Its Discontents /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bronfen, Elisabeth (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1998]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hysteria in motion pictures.
Hysteria in literature.
Hysteria.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Ombilic > Aspect symbolique.
Hysterie au cinema.
Hysterie dans la litterature.
Hysterie.
Hysteria
Navel > Symbolic aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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