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Hysteria

In: Psychoanalytic Accounts of Consuming Desire

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  • John Desmond

    (University of St Andrews)

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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.

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  • John Desmond, 2013. "Hysteria," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Psychoanalytic Accounts of Consuming Desire, chapter 8, pages 223-251, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-28908-7_8
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137289087_8
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