A Case Of Hysteria

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780191640858

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'I very soon had an opportunity to interpret Dora's nervous coughing as the outcome of a fantasized sexual situation.' A Case of Hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him. The 18-year-old 'Dora' was sent for psychoanalysis by her father after threatening suicide; as Freud's enquiries deepened, he uncovered a remarkably unhappy and conflict-ridden family, with several competing versions of their story. The narrative became a crucial text in the evolution of his theories, combining his studies on hysteria and his new theory of dream-interpretation with early insights into the development of sexuality. The unwitting preconceptions and prejudices with which Freud approached his patient reveal his blindness and the broader attitudes of turn-of-the-century Viennese society, while his account of 'Dora's' emotional travails is as gripping as a modern novel. This new translation is accompanied by a substantial introduction which sets the work in its biographical, historical, and intellectual context, and offers a close and critical analysis of the text itself. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780684829463

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Dora by Sigmund Freud Pdf

An appealing and intelligent eighteen-year-old girl to whom Freud gives the pseudonym "Dora" is the subject of a case history that has all the intrigue and unexpected twists of a first-rate detective novel. Freud pursues the secrets of Dora's psyche by using as clues her nervous mannerisms, her own reports on the peculiarities of her family, and the content of her dreams. The personalities involved in Dora's disturbed emotional life were, in their own ways, as complex as she: an obsessive mother, an adulterous father, her father's mistress, Frau K., and Frau K.'s husband, who had made amorous advances toward Dora. Faced with the odd behavior of her family and friends, and unable to confront her own forbidden sexual desires, Dora falls into the destructive pattern of a powerful hysteria. in this influential and provocative case history, Freud uses all his analytic genius and literary skill to reveal Dora's inner life and explain the motives behind her fixation on her father's mistress. -- from back cover.

Author : Daniela Finzi,Herman Westerink
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789462701564

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Dora, Hysteria and Gender by Daniela Finzi,Herman Westerink Pdf

Freud’s Dora case and contemporary debates on gender, sexuality and queer theory ‘Dora’ is one the most important and interesting case studies Sigmund Freud conducted and later described. It constitutes a key text in his oeuvre and finds itself at the crossroads of his studies in hysteria, the theory of sexuality and dream interpretation. The Dora case is both a literary and theoretically ground-breaking text and an account of a ‘failed’ treatment. In Dora, Hysteria and Gender renowned Freud scholars reflect on the Dora case, presenting various innovative and controversial perspectives and elaborating the significance of the text for contemporary debates on gender, sexuality and queer theory. This volume is of interest for psychoanalysts and scholars working on psychoanalysis, sexuality, gender, queer theory, philosophical anthropology and literary studies. Contributors: Rachel B. Blass (Heythrop College, University of London), Daniela Finzi (Sigmund Freud Foundation), Esther Hutfless (University of Vienna), Ulrike Kadi (Medical University of Vienna), Ilka Quindeau (Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences), Beatriz Santos (University Paris VII Diderot), Philippe Van Haute (Radboud University Nijmegen), Herman Westerink (Radboud University Nijmegen), Jeanne Wolff-Bernstein (Sigmund Freud University in Vienna)

Author : Sharon Kivland
Publisher : Book Works (UK)
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 1870699254

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A Case of Hysteria by Sharon Kivland Pdf

Author : Charles Bernheimer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 023107221X

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In Dora's Case by Charles Bernheimer Pdf

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Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199639861

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A Case of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud Pdf

"A Case of hysteria, popularly known as the Dora Case, affords a rare insight into how Freud dealt with patients and interpreted what they told him. The narrative became a crucial text in the evolution of his theories, combining his studies on hysteria and his new theory of dream-interpretation with early insights into the development of sexuality." --from back cover.

Author : Joseph Breuer
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781447486053

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Studies in Hysteria by Joseph Breuer Pdf

Originally published in 1895, this early work of psychology is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains Freud and Breuer’s case studies of hysteria and their methods of psychoanalytic treatment. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of psychology. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Jan Goldstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781400833719

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Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy by Jan Goldstein Pdf

A unique account of a peasant girl's mental illness in nineteenth-century France Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy offers a rare window into the inner life of a person ordinarily inaccessible to historians: a semiliterate peasant girl who lived almost two centuries ago, in the aftermath of the French Revolution. Eighteen-year-old Nanette Leroux fell ill in 1822 with a variety of incapacitating nervous symptoms. Living near the spa at Aix-les-Bains, she became the charity patient of its medical director, Antoine Despine, who treated her with hydrotherapy and animal magnetism, as hypnosis was then called. Jan Goldstein translates, and provides a substantial introduction to, the previously unpublished manuscript recounting Nanette's strange illness—a manuscript coauthored by Despine and Alexandre Bertrand, the Paris physician who memorably diagnosed Nanette as suffering from "hysteria complicated by ecstasy." While hysteria would become a fashionable disease among urban women by the end of the nineteenth century, the case of Nanette Leroux differs sharply from this pattern in its early date and rural setting. Filled with intimate details about Nanette's behavior and extensive quotations of her utterances, the case is noteworthy for the sexual references that contemporaries did not recognize as such; for its focus on the difference between biological and social time; and for Nanette's fascination with the commodities available in the region's nascent marketplace. Goldstein's introduction brilliantly situates the text in its multiple contexts, examines it from the standpoint of early nineteenth-century medicine, and uses the insights of Foucault and Freud to craft a twenty-first-century interpretation. A compelling, multilayered account of one young woman's mental afflictions, Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy is an extraordinary addition to the cultural and social history of psychiatry and medicine.

Author : Anouchka Grose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429914676

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Hysteria Today by Anouchka Grose Pdf

Hysteria, one of the most diagnosed conditions in human history, is also one of the most problematic. Can it even be said to exist at all? Since the earliest medical texts people have had something to say about 'feminine complaints'. Over the centuries, theorisations of the root causes have lurched from the physiological to the psychological to the socio-political. Thanks to its dual association with femininity and with fakery, the notion of hysteria inevitably provokes questions about women, men, sex, bodies, minds, culture, happiness and unhappiness. To some, it may seem extraordinary that such a contested diagnosis could continue to merit any mention whatsoever. Hysteria Today is a collection of essays whose purpose is to reopen the case for hysteria and to see what relevance, if any, the term may have within contemporary clinical practice.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780141937014

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Studies in Hysteria by Sigmund Freud Pdf

The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time it is the most elusive. Freud's recognition that hysteria stemmed from traumas in the patient's past transformed the way we think about sexuality. Studies in Hysteria is one of the founding texts of psychoanalysis, revolutionizing our understanding of love, desire and the human psyche.

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : 0701200677

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The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud by Sigmund Freud Pdf

Author : Sigmund Freud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Psychoanalysis
ISBN : UOM:39015018320005

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Collected Papers by Sigmund Freud Pdf

Author : Jacqueline Rose
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789605266

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Sexuality in the Field of Vision by Jacqueline Rose Pdf

A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.

Author : Mike Cullen
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 087129950X

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Anna Weiss by Mike Cullen Pdf

An explosive and disturbing play about the phenomenon of False Memory Syndrome by an acclaimed Scottish playwright.

Author : Philippe Van Haute,Tomas Geyskens
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789058679116

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A Non-oedipal Psychoanalysis? by Philippe Van Haute,Tomas Geyskens Pdf

The different psychopathologic syndromes show in an exaggerated and caricatural manner the basic structures of human existence. These structures not only characterize psychopathology, but they also determine the highest forms of culture. This is the credo of Freud's anthropology. This anthropology implies that humans are beings of the in-between. The human being is essentially tied up between pathology and culture, and 'normativity' cannot be defined in a theoretically convincing manner. The authors of this book call this Freudian anthropology a patho-analysis of existence or a clinical anthropology. This anthropology gives a new meaning to the Nietzschean dictum that the human being is a 'sick animal'. Freud, and later Lacan, first developed this anthropological insight in relation to hysteria (in its relation to literature).This patho-analytic perspective progressively disappears in Freud's texts after 1905. This book reveals the crucial moments of that development. In doing so, it shows clearly not only that Freud introduced the Oedipus complex much later than is usually assumed, but also that the theory of the Oedipus complex is irreconcilable with the project of a clinical anthropology.The authors not only examine the philosophical meaning of this thesis in the work of Freud. They also examine its avatars in the texts of Jacques Lacan and show how this project of a patho-analysis of existence inevitably obliges us to formulate a non-oedipal psychoanalytic anthropology.