This essay takes its origin from a problem raised by the complex and much investigated relation between the French neurologist and alienist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), and the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Their works on hysteria have been crucial in the rise of the sciences of the mind as we know them and are written in a period – the fin-de-siècle and the turn of the century – that saw the formation of some of their most significant conceptual tools. One of them, as we will see, is the concept of trauma, which allowed both physicians to conceive hysteria and, more generally, nervous diseases in a new way.
Seeing and Hearing: Charcot, Freud, and the Objectivity of Hysteria / SAVOIA P. - STAMPA. - (2015), pp. 123-144. [10.1007/978-3-319-14349-1_7]
Seeing and Hearing: Charcot, Freud, and the Objectivity of Hysteria
SAVOIA P
2015
Abstract
This essay takes its origin from a problem raised by the complex and much investigated relation between the French neurologist and alienist Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), and the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. Their works on hysteria have been crucial in the rise of the sciences of the mind as we know them and are written in a period – the fin-de-siècle and the turn of the century – that saw the formation of some of their most significant conceptual tools. One of them, as we will see, is the concept of trauma, which allowed both physicians to conceive hysteria and, more generally, nervous diseases in a new way.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
