TY - BOOK AU - Gherovici,Patricia TI - The Puerto Rican syndrome T2 - Cultural studies SN - 1892746751 (pbk.) AV - RC451.5.P84 G48 2003 U1 - 362.2/089/687295 21 PY - 2003/// CY - New York PB - Other Press KW - Puerto Ricans KW - Mental health KW - Local KW - Psychoanalytic Theory KW - Puerto Rico KW - Mental Disorders KW - ethnology KW - diagnosis KW - Hispanic Americans KW - Hysteria KW - history KW - Psychoanalysis KW - United States N1 - 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 ER -