The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents by Elisabeth Bronfen

The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents

Elisabeth Bronfen

490 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction feminism challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 an...

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