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.