LEADER 05072nam 2200817Ia 450 001 9910807326403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-0326-8 010 $a1-4008-1193-7 010 $a1-282-75223-5 010 $a9786612752230 010 $a1-4008-2168-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821686 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006915 035 $a(EBL)617285 035 $a(OCoLC)705526990 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000237872 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12077422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000237872 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10191766 035 $a(PQKB)10927295 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000283726 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11256016 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283726 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10250139 035 $a(PQKB)11533563 035 $a(OCoLC)51453550 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse41450 035 $a(DE-B1597)446105 035 $a(OCoLC)979741533 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821686 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617285 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035764 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275223 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617285 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006915 100 $a19941107e19981995 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRewriting the soul $emultiple personality and the sciences of memory /$fIan Hacking 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d1998, c1995 215 $a1 online resource (347 pages) 300 $a"1st pbk. print., with corrections". 311 $a0-691-03642-X 311 $a0-691-05908-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 297-328) and index. 327 $tIs It Real? --$tWhat Is It Like? --$tThe Movement --$tChild Abuse --$tGender --$tCause --$tMeasure --$tTruth in Memory --$tSchizophrenia --$tBefore Memory --$tDoubling of the Personality --$tThe Very First Multiple Personality --$tTrauma --$tThe Sciences of Memory --$tMemoro-Politics --$tMind and Body --$tAn Indeterminacy in the Past --$tFalse Consciousness. 330 $aTwenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the "MPD" community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. Here the distinguished philosopher Ian Hacking uses the MPD epidemic and its links with the contemporary concept of child abuse to scrutinize today's moral and political climate, especially our power struggles about memory and our efforts to cope with psychological injuries. What is it like to suffer from multiple personality? Most diagnosed patients are women: why does gender matter? How does defining an illness affect the behavior of those who suffer from it? And, more generally, how do systems of knowledge about kinds of people interact with the people who are known about? Answering these and similar questions, Hacking explores the development of the modern multiple personality movement. He then turns to a fascinating series of historical vignettes about an earlier wave of multiples, people who were diagnosed as new ways of thinking about memory emerged, particularly in France, toward the end of the nineteenth century. Fervently occupied with the study of hypnotism, hysteria, sleepwalking, and fugue, scientists of this period aimed to take the soul away from the religious sphere. What better way to do this than to make memory a surrogate for the soul and then subject it to empirical investigation? Made possible by these nineteenth-century developments, the current outbreak of dissociative disorders is embedded in new political settings. Rewriting the Soul concludes with a powerful analysis linking historical and contemporary material in a fresh contribution to the archaeology of knowledge. As Foucault once identified a politics that centers on the body and another that classifies and organizes the human population, Hacking has now provided a masterful description of the politics of memory : the scientizing of the soul and the wounds it can receive. 606 $aMultiple personality$xPhilosophy 606 $aMemory$xSocial aspects 606 $aMultiple personality$xSocial aspects 606 $aMultiple personality$xHistory 606 $aSoul$xPsychological aspects 615 0$aMultiple personality$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aMemory$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aMultiple personality$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aMultiple personality$xHistory. 615 0$aSoul$xPsychological aspects. 676 $a153.1/2 700 $aHacking$b Ian$012435 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807326403321 996 $aRewriting the soul$950514 997 $aUNINA