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... history. The Story of Anna 0.:A Study on Hysteria refers at once to the investigation of Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud, and to that of the filmmaker. The case involved a highly intelligent young woman who developed, in connection with her father’s fatal illness, what Ernest Jones called...

... and for the possibility of a specifiably male hysteria. If we combine Freud’s hypothesis on the bisexual character of hysteria with the haunting formulation from Freud and Breuer that “hysterics suffer principally from reminis- 161 cences,” then we have the formula for much of the action...

.... After making his own study of male hysteria in 1886, and more detailed analyses of female hysterics with Breuer in 1895, Freud would be led to posit trauma in psychic, not pathological terms. Eventually he came to see the “founding trauma” of hysteria as a fantasy...

...? These questions hinge on the concept of hysterical con- version as coined by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer in their collaborative work Studies on Hysteria.5 Given that Freud him- self assigned such importance to the body’s insistent speech even...

... literal hystera, the a~tzt~~espassabnellesdescribed by Freud and Breuer,17 whose studies on hysteria come to mind in the subtitle of the film, “a case history.” But in the case of Karin’s family, the father himself was forced into, first, submission as a worker, and then destitution...

... employs the term mnemic sym- bol to describe conversion symptoms in hysteria. In Studies on Hys- teria, Freud and Josef Breuer argue that when the affect accompany- ing a traumatic experience remains in a strangulated state, rather than being discharged, the memory of the experience is severed from...

... have been based on Roy Cohn.27 More important, gay desire continually threatens to emerge in the film’s concern with hypnotism. Freud and Josef Breuer at first cast hysteria as a hypnoid state, and they thought women were more susceptible to hypnosis (possibly because they do so much...

... even as it manifests itself in plain sight as the symptom. Psycho- analysis, of course, is the restoration of thinking to its normal syn- tagmatic chain, analogous to “the right setting of the attention” that Münsterberg spoke of in relation to film. In his work with Josef Breuer, Freud...

... in his and Josef Breuer’s Studies on Hysteria, The Standard Edition, vol. 2: 125-134. 16. Sigmund Freud, “Screen Memories,” The Standard Edition, vol. 3: 322. 17. Sigmund Freud, The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1 904, trans...

..., Cornell University Press: 1989). 6. Sigmund Freud and Joseph Breuer, Studies in Hysteria, trans. James Strachey (UK: Penguin, 1974) 133. Unless stated otherwise, all references to Freud in this paper will be to the Pelican Freud (PF) editions. 7. Hanna...

... of the case. But what is relevant here is that as an analogy to what is happening in the Dora case, Hertz refers to some anecdotes from the beginning of On the History of the Psychoanalytic Movement. There Freud tells three stories about three men, Breuer, Charcot and Chrobak, who...

... to be the most natural thing in the world. Based on the example of three generations of the worlung- class family, Breuer, and the middle-class family, Ackermann, the film exam- ines some of the political, economic, and ideological factors influencing 132 “nature.” Combining documentary photos...

... of Destruction’: Cinematic Inscriptions of Physiology,” Representations, 40 (Fall 1992): 129-152, 138. 61. Cartwright, “‘Experiments of Destruction 62. Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning and Novom Organum (New York: The Colonial Press, 1899) 135. 63. Joseph Breuer and Sigmund Freud...