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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 for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria, leading 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, Wagner), cinema (Cronenberg, Hitchcock, Woody Allen), and visual art (Marie-Ange Guilleminot, Cindy Sherman). Each of these creative works attests to a particular relationship between hysteria and self-fashioning, and enables us to read hysteria quite literally as a language of discontent. The message broadcasted by the hysteric is one of vulnerability: vulnerability of the symbolic, of identity, and of the human body itself.Throughout this work, Bronfen not only offers fresh approaches to understanding hysteria in our culture, but also introduces a new metaphor to serve as a theoretical tool. Whereas the phallus has long dominated psychoanalytical discourse, the image of the navel--a knotted originary wound common to both genders--facilitates discussion of topics relevant to hysteria, such as trauma, mortality, and infinity. Bronfen's insights make for a lively, innovative work sure to interest readers across the fields of art and literature, feminism, and psychology.Originally published in 1998.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Psychological study of literature --- Thematology --- Film --- Depth psychology --- Hysteria --- Hysteria in literature --- Hysteria in motion pictures --- Hysterical neuroses --- Hysterie --- Hysterie in de film --- Hysterie in de literatuur --- Hystérie --- Hystérie dans la littérature --- Hystérie dans le cinéma --- 82:159.9 --- Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse --- Hysteria in literature. --- Hysteria in motion pictures. --- Hysteria. --- Navel --- Psychoanalyse --- Symbolic aspects. --- cultuur en religie --- 82:159.9 Literatuur en psychologie. Literatuur en psychoanalyse --- cultuur en religie. --- Mass Media --- Histrionic Personality Disorder --- History --- Philosophy --- Humanities --- Abdomen --- Audiovisual Aids --- Personality Disorders --- Educational Technology --- Teaching Materials --- Communications Media --- Body Regions --- Technology --- Information Science --- Mental Disorders --- Anatomy --- Technology, Industry, and Agriculture --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Technology, Industry, Agriculture --- Motion Pictures as Topic --- Symbolism --- Umbilicus --- Literature --- Psychiatry --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Psychiatric Disorders, Individual --- Symbolic aspects --- Belly button --- Omphalos --- Hysteric passion --- Hysterica passio --- Hysterical neurosis --- Hysterical passion --- Passio hysterica --- Vapors (Disease) --- Vapours (Disease) --- Umbilical cord --- Motion pictures --- Neuroses --- Ecstasy --- Navel - Symbolic aspects.

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De l'œuvre très riche de Bernard Mandeville, la postérité n'a guère retenu que la très controversée Fable des abeilles, qui lui vaut encore aujourd'hui de passer pour l'apôtre du libéralisme le plus cynique. Son Traité des passions hypocondriaques et hystériques, seul ouvrage médical de ce médecin philosophe, fait partie de ses œuvres les moins connues en Grande-Bretagne comme en France. Il mérite cependant d'être lu à plus d'un titre, car Mandeville y fait entendre un discours pragmatique étonnamment moderne sur la relation entre le malade et le patient. La parole et le récit de soi sont au centre du processus de guérison, et annoncent la cure par la parole théorisée par la psychanalyse. La forme du dialogue n'y est pas une simple stratégie didactique, elle est le véhicule de la cure et la cure elle-même. Le Traité de Mandeville s'inscrit également dans une tradition de réflexion sur la mélancolie qui remonte à l'antiquité mais qui affirme son actualité au xviie siècle avec la parution de l'œuvre majeure de Robert Burton (The Anatomy of Melancholy) en 1621, et devient ce « mal anglais » que décrira George Cheyne un siècle plus tard (The English Malady), en 1733, soit trois ans seulement après la seconde édition révisée et augmentée du Traité de Mandeville.

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Comportement --- Gedragswetenschap --- meervoudig persoonlijkheidssyndroom --- geschiedenis --- godsdienstpsychologie --- dieptepsychologie --- Persoonlijkheid --- #PBIB:1999.2 --- Hysterie (conversiestoornis) --- Psychologie --- Persoonlijkheidsstoornissen (multiple persoonlijkheid) --- 606.3 --- #KVHB:Psychiatrie --- Psychiatrie --- dissociatieve stoornissen (gez) --- #KVHB:Dissociatie --- 616.2 --- 94 --- 2 --- 159.9 --- Personnalité --- 616.89-008.445 --- #gsdbP --- Religieuze en politieke waangedachten. Religieuze manie --- Theses

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We seem to be living in hysterical times. A simple Google search reveals the sheer bottomless well of “hysterical” discussions on diverse topics such as the #metoo movement, Trumpianism, border wars, Brexit, transgender liberation, Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, and climate change, to name only a few. Against the backdrop of such recent deployments of hysteria in popular discourse––particularly as they emerge in times of material and hermeneutic crisis––Performing Hysteria re-engages the notion of “hysteria”. Performing Hysteria rigorously mines late 20th- and early 21st-century (primarily visual) culture for signs of hysteria. The various essays in this volume contribute to the multilayered and complex discussions that surround and foster this resurgent interest in hysteria––covering such areas as art, literature, theatre, film, television, dance; crossing such disciplines as cultural studies, political science, philosophy, history, media, disability, race and ethnicity, and gender studies; and analysing stereotypical images and representations of the hysteric in relation to cultural sciences and media studies. Of particular importance is the volume's insistence on taking the intersection of hysteria and performance seriously.

Hysteria (Social psychology) in literature. --- Hysteria (Social psychology) --- Mass hysteria --- National hysteria --- Fear --- Social psychology --- Hysteria (Social psychology) in literature --- 905.2 --- visuele geletterdheid --- sociologie --- media --- hysterie --- massamedia --- massahysterie --- mediastudies --- cultuurwetenschappen --- social media --- sociale --- performance --- cultuurfilosofie --- cultuursociologie --- 798.3 --- cultuurfilosofie, -psychologie en -sociologie --- film, esthetiek en kritiek