Research Catalog

Title

The Puerto Rican syndrome / Patricia Gherovici.

Author

Gherovici, Patricia

Publication

New York : Other Press, c2003.

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Details

Description

xviii, 296 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

Cultural studies

Uniform Title

Cultural studies

Subject

• Hysteria
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Mental Disorders > ethnology
• Mental Disorders > diagnosis
• Hispanic or Latino
• Hysteria > history
• Puerto Ricans > Mental health
• Puerto Ricans > Mental health > United States
• Psychoanalysis
• Puerto Rico > ethnology
• Puerto Rico

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-284) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

1892746751 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003004195

OCLC

• 51764641
• SCSB-11231526

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library