The theoretical support for this proposal is the Invention of Hysteria by Georges Didi-Huberman, who, approaching categories of literary and cultural theory. Georges Didi-Huberman’s The Invention of Hysteria is a fascinating historiography of the intersection of medicine, photography, and empiricism during. Didi-Huberman, G. (). Invention of hysteria: Charcot and the photographic iconography of the Salpêtrière (A. Hartz, Trans.). Cambridge, MA, US: MIT Press.
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Lists with This Book. Return to Book Page. Didi-Huberman reads the textual accounts of hysteria as a form of fiction, explaining that he “simply want[s] to indicate the fundamental complicity between clinical practice and figurative, plastic and literary paradigms” p.
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The premise of this study is invemtion, and dazzling. While the on site photographic studio captured psychic aurae and seizures for sexualized description, Charcot’s lectures featured dramatic demonstrations of triggered throes hysteris coercion under hypnosis. 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.
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These images, many of which appear in this book, provided the materials for the multivolume album Iconographie photographique de la Salpetriere.
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