CHAPTER 2. Medicine's Hysteria Romance: Is It History or Legend?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. PREFACE xi
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
5. PART ONE: THE HYSTERICAL SUBJECT OF THEORY
6. INTRODUCTION. Navel Inversions 3
7. CHAPTER 1. The Navel of Sigmund Freud's Inaugural Dream 53
8. PART TWO: HISTORY'S HYSTERIAS
9. CHAPTER 2. Medicine's Hysteria Romance: Is It History or Legend? 101
10. CHAPTER 3. Gothic Hysterics: Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest 139
11. CHAPTER 4. Jean-Martin Charcot's Vampires 174
12. PART THREE: HYSTERIA'S CASE HISTORIES
13. CHAPTER 5. Turnings of Nostalgia: Sigmund Freud, Karl Jaspers, Pierre Janet 243
14. CHAPTER 6. Anne Sexton's Business of Writing Suicide 290
15. CHAPTER 7. "You Freud, Me Jane": Alfred Hitchcock's Mamie, the Case History Revisited 332
16. PART FOUR: PERFORMING HYSTERIA
17. CHAPTER 8. A Womb of One's Own, or the Strange Case of David Cronenberg 381
18. CHAPTER 9. Beyond Hysteria: Cindy Sherman's Private Theater of Horror 409
19. NOTES 433
20. BIBLIOGRAPHY 451
21. INDEX 467
22. About the Author 470