Invention of Hysteria Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpï¿½triï¿½re

Name: Invention of Hysteria Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpï¿½triï¿½re
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ISBN: 9780262541800

ISBN-10: 0262541807

ISBN-13: 9780262541800

Edition: 2004

Authors: Georges Didi-Huberman, Alisa Hartz

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In this classic of French cultural studies, Georges Didi-Huberman traces the intimate and reciprocal relationship between the disciplines of psychiatry and photography in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on the immense photographic output of the Salpetriere hospital, the notorious Parisian asylum for insane and incurable women, Didi-Huberman shows the crucial role played by photography in the invention of the category of hysteria. Under the direction of the medical teacher and clinician Jean-Martin Charcot, the inmates of Salpetriere identified as hysterics were methodically photographed, providing skeptical colleagues with visual proof of hysteria's specific form. These images, many…

Book details

Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/17/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 7.01" wide x 10.04" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at the ï¿½cole des hautes ï¿½tudes en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the author of more than thirty books on the history and theory of images, including Images in Spite of All, published by the University of Chicago Press.



Acknowledgments


Principal Works Cited


Argument



Spectacular Evidence



Outbreaks



Clinical Knowledge



Legends of Photography



A Thousand Forms, in None



Charming Augustine



Auras



Attacks and Exposures



Repetitions, Rehearsals, Staging


Appendixes



The "Living Pathological Museum"



Charcot's Clinical Lectures



Consultation



Preface to the Photographic Journal of the Hospitals of Paris



Preface to the Iconographie photographique de la Salpetiere (vol.I)



Preface to the Iconographie photographique de la Salpetiere (vol.II)



The Photographic Platform, Headrest, and Gallows



The "Observation" and the Photograph at the Salpetiere



The "Photographic Card" at the Salpetiere



Technique of Forensic Photography



The Portrait's Veil, the Aura



The "Auracular" Self-Portrait



The Aura Hysterica (Augustine)



Explanation of the Synoptic Table of the Great Hysterical Attack



The "Scintillating Scotoma"



Cure or Experimentation?



Gesture and Expression: Celebral Automatism



A Tableau Vivant of Cataleptics



Provoqued Deliria: Augustine's Account



Theatrical Suggestion



Somnambular Writing



How Far Does Hypnotic Suggestion Go?


Notes


Bibliography


Index