Illness as Assemblage
The Case of Hystero-epilepsy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5118210 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Diedrich (Stony Brook University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 66-90 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Body & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1357-034X • E-ISSN: 1460-3632 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1357034x15586239 |
| OpenAlex | W2106886584 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article explores illness as an assemblage of bodies, discourses, and practices by tracing a genealogy of the condition hystero-epilepsy in order to show the precarity of dominant bio-psychiatric ideology in the present. I read Siri Hustvedt's case study of her own nervous condition with and against other histories of nerves, including Charcot's treatment of hystero-epilepsy in the 1870s, Foucault's treatment of hysteria, simulation, and the 'neurological body' presented in his lectures in 1974, and Elizabeth Wilson's recent treatment of the Freudian concept of 'somatic compliance.' I assemble this eclectic hystero-epileptic archive not in order to present a definitive history of hystero-epilepsy, but rather to think about how illness is made, unmade, and remade in the clinic and narrative
Aesthetics · Art · Epilepsy · Freudian slip · Hysteria · Ideology · Literature · Narrative · Narrative medicine · Political science · Precarity · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Neurology and Historical Studies · Philosophy · Psychology
The daughter's seduction
Feminism and Psychoanalysis
In Dora’S Case Freud–Hysteria–Feminism
Immaterial Bodies
Volatile Bodies
Psychosomatic
Narrative Medicine
The invention of post-traumatic stress disorder and the social usefulness of a psychiatric category
The Need for a New Medical Model
Stigma
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
How To Do Things With Words
The Knotted Subject
Sorting Things Out
Que(e)rying the Clinic before Aids
Charcot and the Theatre of Hysteria
Anti-Oedipus
Moving beyond Prozac, DSM, and the new psychiatry
A thousand plateaus
Touching Feeling
Hysteria, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism
On the "Disappearance" of Hysteria
Asylums
From Hyperactive Children to ADHD Adults
PTSD in DSM-III
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |