| Description |
xviii, 296 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Cultural studies |
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Cultural studies (New York, N.Y.)
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| Contents |
Ghettorics of hysteria: Lacan and the states of the other America -- Hysteria strikes back -- Hysteria invents psychoanalysis -- Lacan and the hysterization of psychoanalysis -- The invention of a Lacanian hysteria -- Hysteria, the most sublime -- Where have all the hysterics gone? -- What is the Puerto Rican syndrome? -- Why a Puerto Rican syndrome? -- The Puerto Rican syndrome, anger and justice -- Ataque: defensive violence? -- From attacks to dreams: on some realizations of desire -- Blocking the Hispanic unconscious: subjectivity and subjection -- Re-writing the Philadelphia story -- From Alaska to Puerto Rico: the letter always arrives at its destination |
| Summary |
"During the 1950's, U.S. Army medical officers noted a new and puzzling syndrome that contemporary psychiatry could neither explain nor cure. These doctors reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress behaved in a very peculiar and dramatic manner, exhibiting a theatrical form of pseudoepilepsy. Startled physicians observed frightened and disoriented patients foaming at the mouth, screaming, biting, kicking, shaking in seizures, and fainting. The phenomenon seemed to correspond to a serious neurological disease yet, as with some forms of hysteria, physical examination failed to identify any sign of an organic origin. This unusual set of symptoms, entered into medical records as "a group of striking psychopathological reaction patterns, precipitated by minor stress," was designated "Puerto Rican Syndrome.""--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-284) and index |
| Subject |
Puerto Ricans -- Mental health.
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Puerto Ricans -- Mental health -- United States.
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Hysteria.
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Psychoanalysis.
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Hysteria -- history.
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Hispanic Americans.
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Mental Disorders -- diagnosis.
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Mental Disorders -- ethnology.
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Psychoanalytic Theory.
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| SUBJECT |
Puerto Rico. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011647 |
| LC no. |
2003004195 |
| ISBN |
1892746751 paperback |
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