Mr. Hysteria

Abstract When Jean-Martin Charcot selected Babinski as senior resident in 1885, Charcot’s fame, international as well as national, was at its peak, especially in reg...

Countless episodes of mass hysteria have occurred throughout history in different time frames and across different cultures. Mass hysteria is an exceptional psychological phenomeno...

The article is a discursive analysis of medical, ecclesiastic and lay articles on women's hysteria published in Slovenia between 1877 and 1935. The analysis shows which discourses ...

Abstract The nineteenth century seems to have been full of hysterical women - or so they were diagnosed. Where are they now? The very disease no longer exists. In th...

AbstractThrough a detailed analysis of John Steinbeck's “The Chrysanthemums,” this article aims to open a new chapter in Freudian hysterical criticism of Steinbeck's works. “The Ch...

Hysteria as a disease has been around since ancient times. It has been used to argue that women are inferior due to its connections with the female reproductive system. When a comm...

Deleuze's work on Francis Bacon is an aesthetic clinic of hysteria and an implicit critique of the psychoanalytic conception of hysteria. Bacon's paintings reveal what is at stake ...

Of recent years hysteria has received little scientific study in England, although it was an Englishman—Sydenham—who first placed it on a truly sound and secure basis. It was nearl...