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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Gherovici, Patricia. Puerto Rican syndrome. New York : Other Press, ©2003 (DLC) 2003004195 (OCoLC)51764641 |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Patricia Gherovici |
OCLC Number: | 948237553 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2016. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 296 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Ghettorics of hysteria: Lacan and the states of the other America -- Hysteria strikes back -- Hysteria invents psychoanalysis -- Lacan and the hysterization of psychoanalysis -- The invention of a Lacanian hysteria -- Hysteria, the most sublime -- Where have all the hysterics gone? -- What is the Puerto Rican syndrome? -- Why a Puerto Rican syndrome? -- The Puerto Rican syndrome, anger and justice -- Ataque: defensive violence? -- From attacks to dreams: on some realizations of desire -- Blocking the Hispanic unconscious: subjectivity and subjection -- Re-writing the Philadelphia story -- From Alaska to Puerto Rico: the letter always arrives at its destination. |
Series Title: | Cultural studies (New York, N.Y.) |
Responsibility: | Patricia Gherovici. |
Abstract:
During the 1950s, US Army medical officers reported that Puerto Rican soldiers under stress exhibited a theatrical form of pseudo-epilepsy. This work examines the so-called Puerto Rican Syndrome and its social and cultural implications for the growing Hispanic population in the US.
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Related Subjects:(13)
- Puerto Ricans -- Mental health.
- Puerto Ricans -- Mental health -- United States.
- Hysteria.
- Psychoanalysis.
- Hysteria -- history.
- Psychoanalytic Theory.
- Mental Disorders -- ethnology.
- Mental Disorders -- diagnosis.
- Hispanic Americans.
- Puerto Rico -- ethnology.
- United States.
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- Puerto Rico