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The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents(Princeton Legacy Library)


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Surrealist writer Andre Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the 19th century, but many physicians have since viewed it as a "wastebasket of medicine", a psychosomatic state that defies definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria, feminist scholar Elisabeth Bronfen reinvestigates medical writings and cultural performance to reveal the continued relevance of a disorder widely thought to be a romantic formulation of the past. Through a critical rereading she develops a new concept of hysteria, one that challenges traditional gender-based theories linking it to dissatisfied feminine sexual desire. Bronfen turns instead to hysteria's traumatic causes, particularly the fear of violation, and shows how the conversion of psychic anguish into somatic symptoms can be interpreted today as the enactment of personal and cultural discontent. Tracing the development of cultural formations of hysteria from the 1800s to the present, this book explores the writings of Freud, Charcot and Janet together with fictional texts (Radcliffe, Stoker, Anne Sexton), opera (Mozart,

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction: Navel Inversions Ch. 1 The Navel of Sigmund Freud's Inaugural Dream Pt. 2 History's Hysterias Ch. 2 Medicine's Hysteria Romance: Is It History or Legend? Ch. 3 Gothic Hysterics: Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest Ch. 4 Jean-Martin Charcot's Vampires Pt. 3 Hysteria's Case Histories Ch. 5 Turnings of Nostalgia: Sigmund Freud, Karl Jaspers, Pierre Janet Ch. 6 Anne Sexton's Business of Writing Suicide Ch. 7 "You Freud, Me Jane": Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie, the Case History Revisited Pt. 4 Performing Hysteria Ch. 8 A Womb of One's Own, or the Strange Case of David Cronenberg Ch. 9 Beyond Hysteria: Cindy Sherman's Private Theater of Horror Notes Bibliography Index

Review :
"Honorable Mention for the 1999 Barbara Perkins and Geroge Perkins Award of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780691012308
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 472
  • Series Title: Princeton Legacy Library
  • Weight: 680 gr
  • ISBN-10: 069101230X
  • Publisher Date: 21 Jul 1998
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Hysteria and Its Discontents
  • Width: 197 mm


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