Hysteria

John Desmond
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John Desmond: University of St Andrews

Chapter 8 in Psychoanalytic Accounts of Consuming Desire, 2013, pp 223-251 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The hysteric is the iconic figure of psychoanalysis: Her symptoms fed the theoretical insight of Charcot, Breuer and Freud; they inspired the Surrealists as the source of a new creative madness and independent femininity; for Lacan, she forms the model representing the true quest for knowledge; for Baudrillard, she constitutes the model for rootless consumer desire. The hysteric provides a model for critics as the embodiment of the wrongs of psychoanalysis, her treatment a testament to forceful misreadings of the symptoms exhibited by young and vulnerable women in the interests of male power, some of whom defiantly refused its message.

Keywords: Gang Member; Oedipus Complex; Collective Violence; Triangular Relationship; Internal Mediation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137289087_8

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