- Paperback: 488 pages
- Publisher: Princeton University Press; illustrated edition edition (21 July 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 069101230X
- ISBN-13: 978-0691012308
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.3 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Surrealist writer Andre Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the 19th century, but many physicians have since viewed it as a "wastebasket of medicine", a psychosomatic state that defies definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria, feminist scholar Elisabeth Bronfen reinvestigates medical writings and cultural performance to reveal the continued relevance of a disorder widely thought to be a romantic formulation of the past. Through a critical rereading she develops a new concept of hysteria, one that challenges traditional gender-based theories linking it to dissatisfied feminine sexual desire. Bronfen turns instead to hysteria's traumatic causes, particularly the fear of violation, and shows how the conversion of psychic anguish into somatic symptoms can be interpreted today as the enactment of personal and cultural discontent. Tracing the development of cultural formations of hysteria from the 1800s to the present, this book explores the writings of Freud, Charcot and Janet together with fictional texts (Radcliffe, Stoker, Anne Sexton), opera (Mozart,
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0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Bronfen has undertaken a fascinating frame by frame disection of several fictional texts,art and films by Hitchcock and Woody Allen.
however from a clinical point of view I don't that in Hitchcock's Marnie, a diagnosis of
hysteria would be accurate.Marnie would appear to have a 'disorder of the self,' and most likely narcissistic wounds, From a film and litreature point of view this is a fascinating read, but doubtfull clinically. DO FILM AND LITERATURE STUDIES HAVE TO BE ACCURATE CLINICALLY?
however from a clinical point of view I don't that in Hitchcock's Marnie, a diagnosis of
hysteria would be accurate.Marnie would appear to have a 'disorder of the self,' and most likely narcissistic wounds, From a film and litreature point of view this is a fascinating read, but doubtfull clinically. DO FILM AND LITERATURE STUDIES HAVE TO BE ACCURATE CLINICALLY?
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breathtaking political correctness
19 July 2000
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There are simply too many mistakes in this book for it to be of the academic standard it aspires to. Zizek, Bal, Kristeva, Butler... too many of those people have found this book "feminist", which it is not, or "breathtaking"; too many people are too easily convinced nowadays by such lousy arguments and are heading forward to what you could call a hysterical delirium or "Hegelioglobalisation" or the euphoria of the wildest dialectical syntheses (did Zizek start the fire? hard to tell...). The mistakes contain formost her remarks on Nietzsche (he was the Super-Hysteric! not one among others!), not to speak of the Wagner-Kundry-Hytericization, the reference on Deleuze in a footnote that refers to a book which does not (!) contain the notion of the "rhizome" she quotes (she probably did not care to read Deleuze, for the rhizome is rather the contrary of her "Omphalos") etc. etc.
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29 Mar 2003
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This is a very detailed analysis of various artists and films etc. Bronfen has done an exhaustive anlysis of Hitchcock's Marnie which seems inaccurate. It is very doubtful that Marnie fulfills the diagnosis of being an hysteric. Marnie would appear to have narcissistic wounds;a narcissitic personality disorder;PTSD, and a quite sever disorder of the Self. . And anyway one wonders how usefu this is as a way of viewing the film or book. although the book is very intersting, its basic tennent is unconvincing.
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