Hysteria and the scene of feminine representation.

In the sense that women have been hystericized by male theories about femininity, Freudian psychoanalysis has functioned as an institution which seeks women's silence. Hysteria is the dis-ease of this silence; that is to say, it is a set of eloquent symptoms--a "writing" on the body--...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brennan, Karen Morley.
Other Authors: Hogle, Jerrold E.
Language:en
Published: The University of Arizona. 1990
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/185047