by Georges Didi-Huberman (Author), Alisa Hartz (Translator). (The MIT Press) Paperback – Illustrated, September 17, 2004 Charcot did not stop at voyeuristic observation. Through techniques such as hypnosis, electroshock therapy, and genital manipulation, he instigated the hysterical symptoms in his patients, eventually giving rise to hatred and resistance on their part.

ed. Sander Gilman. 1993. Although the diagnosis of hysteria in both women and men has virtually disappeared in our time, in practice its symptoms have been transformed into the medically sanctioned ‘conversion syndrome’ and then (mysteriously and perplexingly) have gone underground. It is easy to forget that the ancient threat of an invasive and irrepressible […]