Artikel
Die Hysterie als geschlechtsspezifisches Sozialkonstrukt in der Medizin der Renaissance und bei Shakespeare
Verfasst von:
Schleiner, Winfried
in:
Shakespeare-Jahrbuch
Bochum:
1995
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93 - 105 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Schleiner, Winfried |
| In: | Shakespeare-Jahrbuch |
| Jahr: | 1995 |
| Sprache: | Deutsch |
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| The gendered construction of hysteria in Renaissance medicine and in Shakespeare. Following classical antecedents, Renaissance physiscians generally conceive of hysteria as a female disease. The famous surgeeon Ambroise Paré even seems to have switched the gender of a patient (from male to female) as he narrated a medical case that became part of conventional accounts of hysteria. But there are in the period some rare voices questioning the notion that hysteria is exclusively female. This essay reads King Lear's recognition in himself of a "hysterica passio" against a medical understanding of hysteria that was about to change; mainly on the basis of Shakespeare's gendered use of "Scheintod" (seeming death), traditionally considered a symptom of hysteria, he is ultimately seen as continuing a gendered view of hysteria as female. | |
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