What does Hysteria want from me?

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Hysteria has had a recent resurgence in cultural production. Often, this has stayed in Dr. Charcot’s Salpêtrière hospital while, medically, hysteria has migrated to the more manageable dissociation, conversion or post-traumatic stress disorders. My performative paper on hysteria asks the question, after Jacques Lacan’s Che Vuoi?, what does it want from me? Hysteria is not a condition; it is a state of being, a sign of an impossible demand. It is a way of knowing, as Georges Didi-Huberman and Lacan argued. By exploring Augustine, Dora, Emmy von N and more modern hysterics such as Sam Taylor Wood’s woman, Winnie Seebohm or real life patients with a hysterical gait, I hope to circle that which is elusive in hysteria, but which also makes it inherently human, ambivalent and conflicted. As the outcome of this struggle is visual, I will draw on artistic examples—from my own production, and that of others.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished or Performed - 29 Jun 2016
Event 33rd PsyArt International Conference on Psychology and the Arts - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Duration: 29 Jun 20164 Jul 2016
http://conf.psyartjournal.com/2016/

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Conference 33rd PsyArt International Conference on Psychology and the Arts
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityReims
Period29/06/164/07/16
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