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The Phototextual Emergence of Hysteria: From the Iconographie Photographique de la Salpêtrière to J. M. Coetzee's Slow Man [PDF]
This article seeks to examine the emergence of the image of hysteria that originated at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris in the late nineteenth century and has since been transferred across new generations of phototexts through ekphrasis.
Iona Gilburt
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Helene Cixous’s Portrait of Dora: Dora’s Double and the Dramatic Form
A certain element of precariousness is present in Freud’s text of the case study of Dora. Like other late nineteenth century works, this piece of writing which Freud calls a ‘case history’, is enclosed within the context of a ‘movement’ (the ...
Anupama Ayyalasomayajula
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For more information on this video, see the interview Brianne Cohen conducted with Lucy Skaer of Henry VIII's Wives in this issue of Contemporaneity.
Henry VIII's Wives .
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Method in the Madness: Hysteria and the Will to Power
At the very start of a chapter on hysteria in her book From Mastery to Analysis: Theories of Gender in Psychoanalytic Feminism, Patricia Elliot cites Nietzsche’s “truths are illusions of which one has forgotten that they are illusions”.
Matthew Gildersleeve
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Somatização funcional: uma revisão do conceito.
The authors have brought together and analised texts about the history of the concept of hysteria. In these texts hysteria is fundamentally considered a disease of organic origin (of the womb), and, in the Middle Age, evidence of demonic possession. From
Cristina Fabião +2 more
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Throughout the nineteenth century, a growing part of the French medical field focuses on this specific « pathology » called Hysteria. At that time, doctors are producing a rich literature especially fixed on female bodies, a big corpus which is also a ...
Grégory Quin, Anaïs Bohuon
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Introduction: Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also known as mass hysteria (MH), is a mental health disorder that frequently occurs in Nepal. It primarily affects female students in government high schools and occurs during the course of the school day ...
Sunil Dhungel, PhD +7 more
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Mass hysteria and incidence rate control in the organized groups (RUDN University approach)
The article presents the results of the comprehensive study of methods for countering mass panic and explosive morbidity in the organized community (on the example of a number of activities implemented at the RUDN University during the first wave of the ...
N. O. Danilina +4 more
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Clinical trials on PARP inhibitors in urothelial carcinoma (UC) showed limited efficacy and a lack of predictive biomarkers. We propose SLFN5, SLFN11, and OAS1 as UC‐specific response predictors. We suggest Talazoparib as the better PARP inhibitor for UC than Olaparib.
Jutta Schmitz +15 more
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