The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture by Elaine Showalter
Tag: hysteria
Louise Bourgeois, ARCHED FIGURE NO. 2, 1997, Fabric, nylon, bone and steel with glass, wood and stainless steel vitrine, 70 x 38 x 18 inches with vitrine, 177.8 x 96.5 x 45.7 centimeters
Nicole Jolicoeur, Woman in Hysteria (after J.-M. Charcot, )1980
Louise Bourgeois, Arched Figure, 1993, bronze, fabric and metal
Hysteria vs. Epilepsy.
Because of the “convulsions” associated with “hysteric paroxysm” (which were often actually induced by the physicians themselves, before home devices were brought about), epileptic fits and attacks of hysteria were not infrequently confused.
Hysteria & Neurasthenia. J. Mitchell Clarke, 1905.
Fall into hysterics, succesive phases by Albert Londe, 29 october 1882
A series of six photographs, albumen prints
© Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts. With kind permission
Auguste Rodin, DamnedWoman (Woman Lying on he rBack), c. 1884. Bronze, 20.3× 39.4× 26 cm.
vs Paul Richer, ‘Phase tonique.Grands mouvementstoniques’, from Paul Richer,Études Cliniques sur l’Hystéro-Épilepsie ou Grande Hystérie, Paris, 1881, 53, fig. 19. Photo: Wellcome Library, London
Original graphite sketches by Paul Richer, drawn at patients’ bedsides
in La Salpêtrière Hos
Original graphite sketches by Paul Richer, drawn at patients’ bedsides
in La Salpêtrière Hospital. 1879.
© Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts. With kind permission
Kate Zambreno from Heroines
Little Bristling Soul 