The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents

by Elisabeth Bronfen

Book Overview

Surrealist writer Andr? Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a psychosomatic state that defies attempts at definition and cure and that can be easily mistaken for other pathological conditions. In light of a resurgence of critical interest in hysteria, leading feminist scholar Elisabeth Bronfen reinvestigates medical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691608377
• ISBN13: 9780691608372
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"