Madness : A History by Pietikäinen Petteri

Author:Pietikäinen, Petteri [Petteri Pietikainen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781317484431
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Charcot’s fame did not rest on any ingenious theoretical treatises on hysteria, but on his case studies: he published over 120 richly illustrated case histories that fully revealed the drama that was hysteria, Grande Hystérie in particular. His female hysterics (and ‘epileptics’) were immortalized in visual representations, notably in the etchings of Paul Richer and the photographs published in the periodical Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1876–9) and its successor, Nouvelle iconographie de la Salpêtrière, which were impressive, though largely fabricated, visualizations of hysteria (Didi-Huberman 2003). There was a ‘photographic department’ attached to Charcot’s clinic, showing how important the concrete bodily representation of hysteria was for Charcot and his colleagues.

FIGURE 8.1 Jean-Martin Charcot giving a clinical demonstration at the Salpêtrière. He is showing his students a woman (‘Blanche’) in a trance or shock. Painting by André Brouillet, 1887.

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