Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Charcot and the Heyday of Hysteria 9
6. 2. Reaction: Psychological Theories and the Dismemberment of Hysteria 51
7. 3. Between Wars: New Rifts and Splits 77
8. 4. After the Second War: Reconstruction and Self-Analysis 106
9. 5. '68 and After: Mainstream Views of Hysteria 136
10. 6. Lacan and the Hystericization of Psychoanalysis 173
11. 7. Feminist Critiques: The Hysteric as Heroine 200
12. 8. Plus ça change . . . : Another Fin de Siècle 223
13. References 243
14. Index 261