The Hysteric

Author : Eleanor Bowen,Laura González
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000862454

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The Hysteric by Eleanor Bowen,Laura González Pdf

Examining historical, clinical and artistic material, in both written and visual form, this book traces the figure of the contemporary hysteric as she rebels against the impossible demands made upon her. Exploring five traits that commonly characterise the hysteric as an archetype – a specific body, mimetic abilities, a shroud of mystery, a propensity to disappear and a particular relationship to voice – the authors shed light on what it means to be hysterical, as a form of rebellion and resistance. This is important reading for scholars of sociology, gender studies, cultural studies and visual studies with interests in psychoanalysis, art and the characterisation of mental illness.

Author : Rachel Mesch
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826515312

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The Hysteric's Revenge by Rachel Mesch Pdf

Brings into relief a critical relationship between the female mind and body that is essential to understanding the discursive position of the turn-of-the-century woman writer. This book includes novels that confront this mind/body problem through a wide variety of styles and genres that challenge conventional fin-de-siecle notions of femininity.

Author : Juliet Flower MacCannell
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816632952

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The Hysteric's Guide to the Future Female Subject by Juliet Flower MacCannell Pdf

How can a girl become a woman today without being either a victim or a manipulator? Reflecting on this question, MacCannell takes us for the first time beyond the flawed models for becoming a woman left to us by Freud and Sade.

Author : Nelly Arcan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : French-Canadian fiction
ISBN : 1927380960

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Hysteric by Nelly Arcan Pdf

In this daring act of self-examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the tortured end of a love affair. All the wrong signals were there from the start, but still, she could not help falling. More than a portrait of an affair gone wrong, Hysteric is a chronicle of life among the twenty- and thirty-somethings, a life structured by text messages, missed cell phone calls, the latest DJs and Internet porn. When the writer's aunt read her tarot cards, no predictionsfor her future ever appeared. This tale, an astounding feat of literary realism, shares the story of a woman who loses her identity in a man in hopes of finding love. Told in the same voice that made her first novel Whore an international success, Nelly Arcan manages to answer the challenges she set down for herself in her previous books.

Author : Lilian Munk Rösing
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781628920628

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Pixar with Lacan by Lilian Munk Rösing Pdf

The films from Pixar Animation Studios belong to the most popular family films today. From Monsters Inc to Toy Story and Wall-E, the animated characters take on human qualities that demand more than just cultural analysis. What animates the human subject according to Pixar? What are the ideological implications? Pixar with Lacan has the double aim of analyzing the Pixar films and exemplifying important psychoanalytic concepts (the voice, the gaze, partial object, the Other, the object a, the primal father, the name-of-the-father, symbolic castration, the imaginary/ the real/ the symbolic, desire and drive, the four discourses, masculine/feminine), examining the ideological implications of the images of human existence given in the films.

Author : Slavoj Zizek
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745681443

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The Most Sublime Hysteric by Slavoj Zizek Pdf

What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most provocative and widely-read thinkers of our time - upends our traditional understanding, dynamites every cliché and undermines every conviction in order to clear the ground for new ways of answering these questions. When Lacan described Hegel as the ‘most sublime hysteric’, he was referring to the way that the hysteric asks questions because he experiences his own desire as if it were the Other's desire. In the dialectical process, the question asked of the Other is resolved through a reflexive turn in which the question begins to function as its own answer. We had made Hegel into the theorist of abstraction and reaction, but by reading Hegel with Lacan, Zizek unveils a Hegel of the concrete and of revolution - his own, and the one to come. This early and dazzlingly original work by Zizek offers a unique insight into the ideas which have since become hallmarks of his mature thought. It will be of great interest to anyone interested in critical theory, philosophy and contemporary social thought.

Author : Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Parapsychology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010325178

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Journal of the Society for Psychical Research by Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Jenn Cole
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780228007203

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Hysteria in Performance by Jenn Cole Pdf

The nineteenth-century study of hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital was a medical project, but also a theatrical one. The hysteric's public appearance was a continual ethical provocation, pointing not only to the vulnerability of her person but to the unstable position of her spectator. Hysteria in Performance sets out to uncover what kind of performance the hysterical attack is, as well as the nature of hysteria in and as performance as it occurred at Salpêtrière. The Salpêtrière documents undeniably show the gravity of the institutional violence committed against its female patients. Using the lenses of performance studies and performance theory, Jenn Cole expresses the overt and subtle damages done to hysterical women in Jean-Martin Charcot's hospital, drawing attention to the hysteric's resistance to these experiences: it is often simply by being herself that the hysteric points to the inherent weaknesses in these systemic modes of violence. In Hysteria in Performance, the hysteric becomes a figure who represents possibilities for ethical encounters within performance and everyday living. Revealing the fraught and exciting nature of theatrical representation, and continually drawing out the dilemmas and unexpected dynamics of witnessing the suffering of others, this groundbreaking study explores how Charcot's findings on hysteria produced a unique mixture of theatre and science that still has unexpected things to teach us.

Author : American Medical Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1310 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : American Medical Association
ISBN : CHI:51116011

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Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association Pdf

Includes proceedings of the Association, papers read at the annual sessions, and list of current medical literature.

Author : Johanna Braun
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789462702110

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Performing Hysteria by Johanna Braun Pdf

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.

Author : Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443453424

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Hysteria by Elisabeth de Mariaffi Pdf

One of The Globe and Mail’s “Favourite Books of the Year” The closer she gets to the truth, the faster it slips away. In the spring of 1945, fifteen year-old Heike circles in the mountains high above Switzerland. Pushed out the door by a worried mother, Heike and her little sister, Lena, have escaped Dresden only days ahead of the firebombs that will destroy that city, to cross a war-torn Germany on their own. But now, Lena is lost and Heike is alone, stalked by a feral dog. Eleven years later, Heike’s life looks very different: married to a prominent American psychiatrist, she’s living in idyllic upstate New York, where she’s free to wander the woods and care for her beloved four-year old son, Daniel. But despite the shiny veneer of this new life, Heike cannot shake the feeling that something is terribly wrong. On the sunniest day of the year, she’s relaxing by a pond with Daniel when a strange little girl appears out of nowhere—then eerily disappears below the surface of the water. From that moment on, nothing is ever the same again. Is the girl a ghost, or an omen of bad things to come? The closer Heike gets to the truth, the faster it slips away.

Author : James Meschter Anders
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Clinical medicine
ISBN : UCAL:B4810809

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A Text-book of the Practice of Medicine by James Meschter Anders Pdf

Author : Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781351681414

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Fantasy/Animation by Christopher Holliday,Alexander Sergeant Pdf

This book examines the relationship that exists between fantasy cinema and the medium of animation. Animation has played a key role in defining our collective expectations and experiences of fantasy cinema, just as fantasy storytelling has often served as inspiration for our most popular animated film and television. Bringing together contributions from world-renowned film and media scholars, Fantasy/Animation considers the various historical, theoretical, and cultural ramifications of the animated fantasy film. This collection provides a range of chapters on subjects including Disney, Pixar, and Studio Ghibli, filmmakers such as Ralph Bakshi and James Cameron, and on film and television franchises such as Dreamworks’ How To Train Your Dragon (2010–) and HBO’s Game of Thrones (2011–).

Author : Paul Verhaeghe
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781590516713

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Does the Woman Exist? by Paul Verhaeghe Pdf

This book describes how Freud attempted to chart hysteria, yet came to a standstill at the problem of woman and her desire, and of how Lacan continued along this road by creating new conceptual tools. The difficulties and upsets encountered by both men are examined. This lucid presentation of the dialectical process that carries Lacan through the evolution of Freud’s thought offers profound insights into the place of the “feminine mystique” in our social fabric. Patiently and carefully, Verhaeghe applies the Lacanian grid to Freud’s text and succeeds in explaining Lacan’s formulations without merely recapitulating his theories. The reader is informed, along the way, not only of Lacan’s take on Freudian ideas, but also of the array of interpretations emerging from other trends in post-Freudian literature, including feminist revisionism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103099552

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New York Medical Times by Anonim Pdf