LEADER 03544nam 22005175 450 001 9911008900703321 005 20191126113341.0 010 $a9781501734311 010 $a1501734318 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501734311 035 $a(CKB)4100000009940504 035 $a(DE-B1597)534393 035 $a(OCoLC)1129213270 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501734311 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31191249 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31191249 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009940504 100 $a20191126d2019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFits and Starts $eA Genealogy of Hysteria in Modern France /$fMartha Evans 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2019] 210 4$d©1992 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 311 08$a9780801426438 311 08$a080142643X 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Charcot and the Heyday of Hysteria -- $t2. Reaction: Psychological Theories and the Dismemberment of Hysteria -- $t3. Between Wars: New Rifts and Splits -- $t4. After the Second War: Reconstruction and Self-Analysis -- $t5. '68 and After: Mainstream Views of Hysteria -- $t6. Lacan and the Hystericization of Psychoanalysis -- $t7. Feminist Critiques: The Hysteric as Heroine -- $t8. Plus ça change . . . : Another Fin de Siècle -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aHysteria has generated a vivid popular mythology as well as a vast scientific literature over its long history. In this spirited book, Martha Noel Evans sheds new light on the significance of hysteria both as an actual psychological disorder and as a cultural statement about gender. Drawing on medical and psychoanalytic texts from Charcot to Lacan and Irigaray, Evans traces the evolution of the concept of hysteria in France from the rise of modern psychiatry in the late nineteenth century to the present.Evans focuses her attention on the intertwining of politics, history, and culture. What she finds most striking is that, in spite of its constancy in the nomenclature of mental disorder, hysteria has persistently been defined as indefinable. She illuminates the processes of denial and projection at work in specialists' encounters with hysteria, showing how even in the discourse of modern science, hysteria itself has been transformed metaphorically into the tricky, oversexed, and elusive woman its sufferers had once been thought to be. Disputing claims that hysteria no longer exists as an illness, Evans links its recent resurgence in France to its function as a locus of repression of cultural anxieties.Fits and Starts will be rewarding reading for anyone concerned with the history of psychoanalysis and with the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature, including scholars and students in the fields of women's studies, gender studies, cultural history, and literary theory. 606 $aPsychology & Psychiatry 606 $aWomens Studies 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French$2bisacsh 615 4$aPsychology & Psychiatry. 615 4$aWomens Studies. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / French. 676 $a616.85/24/0944 700 $aEvans$b Martha, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01262983 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911008900703321 996 $aFits and Starts$94393750 997 $aUNINA