The Knotted Subject : : Hysteria and Its Discontents / / Elisabeth Bronfen.
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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| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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