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Overview

Hysteria—the tormenting of the body by the troubled mind—is among the most pervasive of human disorders; yet, at the same time, it is the most elusive. Freud’s recognition that hysteria stemmed from traumas in the patient’s past transformed the way we think about sexuality. Studies in Hysteria is one of the founding texts of psychoanalysis, revolutionizing our understanding of love, desire, and the human psyche. As full of compassionate human interest as of scientific insight, these case histories are also remarkable, revelatory works of literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101644812
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 06/29/2004
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 745 KB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 in Moravia; between the ages of four and eighty-two his home was in Vienna: in 1938 Hitler's invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died in the following year.



His career began with several years of brilliant work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when, after a period of study under Charcot in Paris, his interests first turned to psychology, and another ten years of clinical work in Vienna(at first in collaboration with Breuer, an older colleague) saw the birth of his creation, psychoanalysis. This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients by investigating their minds, but it quickly grew into an accumulation of knowledge about the workings of the mind in general, whether sick or healthy. Freud was thus able to demonstrate the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions. Freud's life was uneventful, but his ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but the whole intellectual climate of the last half-century




Nicola Luckhurst is a lecturer in literature at Goldsmith’s College, University of London.


Table of Contents

Studies in HysteriaIntroduction by Rachel Bowlby
Translator's Preface

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition

I. On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena (Preliminary Statement)
(Breuer and Freud)

II. Case Histories
1. Fr?ulein Anna O. (Breuer)
2. Frau Emmy von N. (Freud)
3. Miss Lucy R. (Freud)
4. Katharina (Freud)
5. Fr?ulein Elisabeth von R.(Freud)

III. Theoretical Issues (Breuer)
1. Are All Hysterical Phenomena Ideogenic?
2. Intracerebral Tonic Excitation - Affects
3. Hysterical Conversion
4. Hypnoid States
5. Ideas that are Unconscious or Inadmissable to Consciousness, Splitting of the Psyche
6. Innate Disposition; The Development of Hysteria

On the Psychotherapy of Hysteria (Freud)

Hysterical Phantasies and their Relation to Bisexuality (Freud)

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