Gherovici, Patricia.

The Puerto Rican syndrome Patricia Gherovici. - New York Other Press c2003. - xviii, 296 p. 22 cm. - Cultural studies . - Cultural studies (New York, N.Y.) .

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

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.

1892746751 (pbk.)

2003004195

GBA3-T7921

101168573 DNLM


Puerto Ricans--Mental health.
Psychoanalytic Theory--Puerto Rico.
Mental Disorders--ethnology--Puerto Rico.
Mental Disorders--diagnosis--Puerto Rico.
Hispanic Americans--Puerto Rico.
Hysteria--history--Puerto Rico.
Psychoanalysis
Hysteria
Puerto Ricans--Mental health--United States.

RC451.5.P84 / G48 2003

362.2/089/687295

2004 B-572 WM 173 / G417p 2003