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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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1998]
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Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.