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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"hysteria"”.
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Reflections of Fear: Mass Hysteria in Cold War Cinema 1946-1991
… Snatchers as a reflection of the mass fear or hysteria regarding the infiltration of communism into America stirred by the McCarthy trials of the 1950’s. I will look at the 1960’s with the fear of Mutually Assured Destruction reflected in Dr Strangelove, or How I learned to Love the Bomb. The …
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Dialogues between Feminists and Jacques Lacan on Female Hysteria and Femininity
… Anglophone feminists on the relationship between hysteria and femininity. The very existence of hysteria has been called into question by the majority of Anglophone feminists, who have criticized its diagnostic proliferation, claiming that it has negative implications for social change and has …
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Hysteria, Greed, and the Public Purse: The Litigation Impacting a Local Governmental Agency
… basic concepts related to each study group: the hysteria of the neighborhood, the greed of the lawyers, and the vulnerability of the public sector to litigation. I postulate that the plaintiffs' lawyers, originally retained to assist the neighborhood in their fight for closure of the landfill, …
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Perceiving Hysteria: Representations of the Liminal Position of Fibromyalgia in Unconventional Women’s Narratives
… (2022) who unpack the persistent inflection of hysteria in women’s chronic, misunderstood illnesses. I suggest that there remains a problematic and inaccurate representation of FMS. I focus predominantly on Susan Greenhalgh’s autoethnography, Under the Medical Gaze (2001), Kristin K. Barker’s …
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Mold fever : how a bizarre life form penetrated popular consciousness and launched a creeping hysteria
… a four-part newspaper series--details the mold hysteria phenomenon, the biology of indoor molds, the science of indoor mold and health, and the profit-making frenzy that capitalized on mold fever.
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"The Wretched State of My Nerves:" Hysteria and Sympathy in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
… <em>The Woman in White</em> with an emphasis on hysteria. Using disability studies framework and historical context of hysteria in the Victorian era provides a nuanced reading of the novel which subverts gendered stereotypes relating to hysteria and supports a reading of Mr. Fairlie, the only …
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Making history, picturing hysteria : archaeology, ficto-criticism, and the critical history of Nicole Jolicoeur's La vérité folle
… in the context of the constructed nature of both hysteria as an illness and the photograph for adeptly representing reality. Through her work, Jolicoeur performs a Foucauldian archaeology as she researches and re-assembles a visual history of hysteria. Using historical photographs, she proposes a …
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(In)articulating the specter: queer communicative resistance in the hysterical supernatural
… argue we can see this contemporary embodiment of hysteria as a form of queer communicative resistance, existing in a discursive space called the hysterical supernatural. This new terminology – an alternative to the one-dimensionality of conventional medical models – looks toward the crucial …
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Keeping "body and soul together": Rosa Coldfield's gothic voice in absalom, absalom!
… order to enact her desires. The third section, “Hysteria: An Empowering Identity,” examines Rosa as a culturally created hysteric and the implications of this role on her identity. Like her marginalized position, Rosa’s hysteria breaks down the social expectations of her and her own repressed …
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“Let’s Do The Time Warp, Again!” <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show</em> as Hysterical Theatre
… legacy of Jean- Martin Charcot’s lectures on hysteria. His “theatre of hysteria” is a retroactive terminology for the physician’s highlytheatricalized lecture series at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris in the 1880s on the diagnosis of hysteria, during which the bodies of hysterical patients …
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Psycho-analysis and textual production
… of psychoanalysis, its main theories on hysteria and the relationship between Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud. The theoretical base of hysteria is considered to be illuminating to analyses of critical procedures such as those employed in literary criticism. Part II is entitled 'Textual …
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Personality’s interaction with the pain experience
… state. Personality traits such as depression, hysteria and hypochondriasis can mediate pain. A wealth of research has identified the relationship between personality and pain, but each individual case only centres on specific traits or specific causes of pain. In the first experiment …
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'Rapport and Subversion: Mesmer's Treatment of Paradis and Its Influence On the Fiction of E.T.A. Hoffmann' and The Cost of Light (a novel)
… the malleable nature of eighteenth-century hysteria, which, for Paradis, transforms itself constantly in relation to her psychosocial conditions and familial constraints. Her sudden blindness, her miraculous recovery of sight at Doctor Mesmer's hands and then its subsequent loss could …
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To Whom Occurs the Haunting: A Singular Exploration of a Disturbed Femme Psyche
… political context surrounding female madness and hysteria. Focusing heavily on the works of the renowned 20<sup>th</sup> century psychoanalyst, Donald Woods Winnicott, in juxtaposition with the more experimental types of personal writing, I hope to intersperse his ideas surrounding early infantile …
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The influence of personnel selection on the nature of psychiatric illness in the services
… and manic - depressive psychosis and between hysteria and schizophrenia have been indicated. (3) The influence of the standard of personnel selection and morale on the disease incidence has been discussed. (4) The importance of the quantitative factor in diagnosis in military psychiatry has …
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The madness of the Black man on his own: an analysis of the silences of history, in search of herstory
… European assumption of a direct link between hysteria and femininity. I argue that at the base of female hysteria is a much more pervasive and normalised male hysteria, driven by the either/or binary logic of Western philosophy that shows itself in the English language. Indeed, it is …
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