Fits and Starts : : A Genealogy of Hysteria in Modern France / / Martha Evans.
Hysteria has generated a vivid popular mythology as well as a vast scientific literature over its long history. In this spirited book, Martha Noel Evans sheds new light on the significance of hysteria both as an actual psychological disorder and as a cultural statement about gender. Drawing on medic...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Charcot and the Heyday of Hysteria
- 2. Reaction: Psychological Theories and the Dismemberment of Hysteria
- 3. Between Wars: New Rifts and Splits
- 4. After the Second War: Reconstruction and Self-Analysis
- 5. '68 and After: Mainstream Views of Hysteria
- 6. Lacan and the Hystericization of Psychoanalysis
- 7. Feminist Critiques: The Hysteric as Heroine
- 8. Plus ça change . . . : Another Fin de Siècle
- References
- Index