Studies in Hysteria

by Sigmund Freud

Overview

Rachel Bowlby (English, U. of York), who has written on women and psychoanalysis, introduces five case histories that helped make the "talking cure" in/famous. The volume also includes discussion of theoretical issues, e.g. Freud on the relationship of hysteria to bisexuality. Translated from Studien uber Hysterie, Leipzig and Vienna: Deuticke, 1895, by Luckhurst (U. of London). The prefaces to the 1895 and original 1893 editions are included. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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ISBN-13:	9781420948615
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Publication date:	01/01/2013
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About the Author

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) was born in Moravia and lived in Vienna between the ages of four and eighty-two. In 1938 Hitler's invasion of Austria forced him to seek asylum in London, where he died the following year. Freud's career began with several years of brilliant work on the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system. He was almost thirty when, after a period of study under Charcot in Paris, his interests first turned to psychology, and another ten years of clinical work in Vienna (at first in collaboration with Breuer, an older colleague) saw the birth of his creation: psychoanalysis. This began simply as a method of treating neurotic patients by investigating their minds, but it quickly grew into an accumulation of knowledge about the workings of the mind in general, whether sick or healthy. Freud was thus able to demonstrate the normal development of the sexual instinct in childhood and, largely on the basis of an examination of dreams, arrived at his fundamental discovery of the unconscious forces that influence our everyday thoughts and actions. Freud's life was uneventful, but his ideas have shaped not only many specialist disciplines, but the whole intellectual climate of the last half-century.

Nicola Luckhurst is a lecturer in literature at Goldsmith’s College, University of London.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	vii
	Translator's Preface	xxxv
	Preface to the first edition	1
	Preface to the second edition	3
I	On the Psychical Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena (Preliminary Statement) (Breuer and Freud)	5
II	Case Histories
1	Fraulein Anna O. (Breuer)	25
2	Frau Emmy von N. (Freud)	51
3	Miss Lucy R. (Freud)	109
4	Katharina (Freud)	128
5	Fraulein Elisabeth von R. (Freud)	139
III	Theoretical Issues (Breuer)
1	Are All Hysterical Phenomena Ideogenic?	190
2	Intracerebral Tonic Excitation--Affects	196
3	Hysterical Conversion	205
4	Hypnoid States	216
5	Ideas that are Unconscious or Inadmissible to Consciousness, Splitting of the Psyche	223
6	Innate Disposition; The Development of Hysteria	240
IV	On the Psychotherapy of Hysteria (Freud)	255
	Hysterical Phantasies and their Relation to Bisexuality (Freud)	307