Readings on hysteria

So E and I are writing our conference paper as a chapter for a book provisionally entitled ‘Madness, Women and the Power of Art’, which will be published sometime in 2013. Apart from writing a chapter, I will be editing the book with Frances Davies. One of our authors wrote to wish us luck, explaining that his experience of editing almost killed him … I guess this is my apology in case my posts get educed to quotes and pictures again …

As a resource, I wanted to share here my provisional bibliography of hysteria in case anyone wants to delve into the topic. Working through it is phenomenally interesting, as it shows how the topic is controversial, still. Will add to the list, report on specific passages and the experience of editing, and in due course, inform you whether I have survived the task.

• Acocella, Joan Ross, Creating hysteria: women and multiple personality disorder
  
• Appignanesi, Lisa, Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800
• Beizer, Janet, Ventriloquized Bodies: Narratives of Hysteria in Nineteenth-century France
• Bemnan, Eric, Recovery of the Lost Good Object
• Bernheimer, Charles and Claire Kahane, In Dora’s Case: Freud-Hysteria-Feminism: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism, Second Edition, Columbia University Press, 1990
• Bollas, Christopher, Hysteria
• Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel, Making Minds and Madness: From Hysteria to Depression
• Borossa, Julia, Ideas of Psychoanalysis: Hysteria
• von Braun, Christina, Nicht ich: Logik, Lüge, Libido [Not I, Logic, Lie, Libido]
• ––, The Wounded Diva: Hysteria, Body and Technology in the 20th Century Art / Die Verletzte Diva
• Breuer, Joseph and Sigmund Freud, Studies in Hysteria
• Bronfen, Elisabeth, The knotted subject: hysteria and its discontents 
• Brooks, Peter, Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative
• Cixous, Helène, Sarah Burd, ‘Portrait of Dora’, Diacritics, Vol. 13, No. 1. (Spring, 1983), pp. 2–32
• Cixous, Helène and Catherine Clement, The Newly Born Woman
• St.Collective, Jay, ‘Freud’s Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity’, Framework: The Journal of Cinema & Media, Summer 1981, Issue 15/16/17, p.75–80
• Cronenberg, David, A Dangerous Method [Film]
• David-Ménard, Monique, Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: Body and Language in Psychoanalysis
• Didi-Huberman, Georges, The Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the photographic iconography of the Salpetrière
• Edelman, Nicole, Les métamorphoses de l’hystérique. Du début du XIXème siècle à la Grande Guerre

• Eliot, T.S., Hysteria, http://www.poetry-archive.com/e/hysteria.html#XYhRIUdF655Gzhj4.01
• French, Sarah, ‘Re-imagining the female hysteric: Hélène Cixous’ Portrait of Dora’, Traffic, Issue 10, Melbourne: University of Melbourne, 2008, pp. 247–262
• Freud, Sigmund, Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria
• Furse, Anna, Augustine (big hysteria) 
• ––, ‘Making A Spectacle of Herself: Charcot’s Augustine and the Hysteric Dance‘. In: Johannes Birringer and Josephine (Hg.) Fenger, eds. Dance & Choreomania. Leipzig: Henschel, pp. 197–210
• Gilman, Sander L, Hysteria beyond Freud
• Goldstein, Jan, Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy: The Case of Nanette Leroux
• Gordon, Douglas, Hysterical [film]
• Hendrika C. Freud, Electra vs Oedipus: The Drama of the Mother-Daughter Relationship (see also new books in psychoanalysis podcast 39:00 minutes in)
• Hunter, Dianne, The Makings of Dr Charcot’s hysteria shows
• ––, ‘Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism: The Case of Anna O.’, Feminist Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, Autumn, 1983, pp. 464–488
• Husvedt, Asti, Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth Century Paris
• Husvedt, Siri, The shaking woman, or a history of my nerves 
• Israël, Lucien, L’hystérique, le sexe et le médecin
• ——. La Jouissance de l’hysterique. Séminaire 1974
• Kahane, Claire, Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850-1915
• Kivland, Sharon, A case of hysteria
• Krohn, Alan, Hysteria: The Elusive Neurosis
• Lacan, Jacques, Seminar XVII: The Other Side of Psychoanalysis
• Leader, Darian, What is Madness?
• Mahony, Patrick, Freud’s Dora: A Psychoanalytic, Historical, and Textual Study, Yale University Press 1996
• Mazzoni, Cristina, Saint Hysteria: Neurosis, Mysticism, and Gender in European Culture
• McCall, Anthony, Claire Pajaczkowska, Andrew Tyndall, and Jane Weinstock, Sigmund Freud’s Dora, A Case of Mistaken Identity [Film] 40 minutes, 1979.
• Malman, Charles, Nouvelles études sur l’hystérie
• Micale, Mark S, On the “Disappearance” of Hysteria: A Study in the Clinical Deconstruction of a Diagnosis, Isis 84: 496–526, 1993
• ——. Approaching Hysteria: Disease and Its Interpretations
• Micklem, Niel, The Nature of Hysteria
• ––, Hysterical men: the hidden history of male nervous illness
• Mitchell, Juliet, Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria
• Morisson, Toni, Beloved
• Morrissey, Kim, Dora
• Nasio, Juan-David, Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: The splendid child of psychoanalysis
• Noel Evans, Martha, Fits and starts: genealogy of hysteria in modern France
• Phelan, Peggy, ‘Dance and the Hystory of Hysteria’, in Susan Foster, ed, Corporealities: Dancing Knowledge, Culture and Power, London: Routledge, 1996

• Scull, Andrew, Hysteria: The Biography (Biographies of Disease)
• Showalter, Elaine, Hystories: Hysterical epidemics and modern media
• ––, The female malady: women, madness, and English culture, 1830-1980
• ——, Inventing herself: claiming a feminist intellectual heritage
• Taylor-Wood, Sam, Hysteria [film], 1997
• Veith, Ilza, Hysteria: the history of a disease
• Wajcman, Gérard, ‘The Hysteric’s Discourse’, The Symptom, Issue 4, Spring 2003, available from <http://www.lacan.com/hystericdiscf.htm> accessed 07.06.12
• Wald, Christina, Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia: Performative Maladies in Contemporary Anglophone Drama
• Wexler, Tanya, Hysteria [Film]
• Yarom, Nitza, Matrix of hysteria: psychoanalysis of the struggle between the sexes enacted
• Zambreno, Kate, Heroines, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012
• Zulawski, Andrzej, Possession [Film]