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Hysteria Today (The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library)

Hysteria Today (The Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research Library)

by Anouchka Grose (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

Hysteria, one of the most diagnosed conditions in human history, is also one of the most problematic. Can it even be said to exist at all? Since the earliest medical texts people have had something to say about 'feminine complaints'. Over the centuries, theorisations of the root causes have lurched from the physiological to the psychological to the socio-political. Thanks to its dual association with femininity and with fakery, the notion of hysteria inevitably provokes questions about women, men, sex, bodies, minds, culture, happiness and unhappiness. To some, it may seem extraordinary that such a contested diagnosis could continue to merit any mention whatsoever. Hysteria Today is a collection of essays whose purpose is to reopen the case for hysteria and to see what relevance, if any, the term may have within contemporary clinical practice.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 138
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 13 Jan 2016
ISBN 10: 1782201041
ISBN 13: 9781782201045

Media Reviews
'The hysteric's questions - What do I want? What do others want from me? What is my place in society? - are emerging with a vengeance in our neo-liberal times. Social changes and new technologies are shaping the neurotic symptoms people suffer from. This collection of essays finally gives us important insight into the way malaise of the civilization affects malaise of the individual and vice versa. To understand hysteria today is an important step in figuring out social and political deadlocks in contemporary life. Anyone who is trying to understand why there is so much unhappiness in times that glorify choice, efficiency and satisfaction, should dive into this important book.'- Renata Salecl, Birkbeck College, London, author of The Tyranny of Choice'This is an essential book for anyone interested in the ways we all struggle with language. Every writer in this dazzling, scholarly collection of essays has taught me something new about how hysteria continues to haunt the 21st century. Hysteria, like subjectivity, did not die in the 1890s. Hysteria is dead! Long live hysteria!'- Deborah Levy, author of Swimming Home (shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize)
Author Bio
Anouchka Grose is a practising psychoanalyst and member of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research, where she regularly gives lectures. She is the author of two novels, and a non-fiction book, 'No More Silly Love Songs: A Realist's Guide to Romance'. She also writes for 'The Guardian' and teaches at Camberwell School of Art.