The Knotted Subject: Hysteria and Its Discontents

by Elisabeth Bronfen

Book Overview

Surrealist writer Andr? Breton praised hysteria for being the greatest poetic discovery of the nineteenth century, but many physicians have since viewed it as the "wastebasket of medicine," a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069101230X
• ISBN13: 9780691012308
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.8" x 10.0"