The caso of Ana O.: Histeria and sexuality in La Regenta
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https://doi.org/10.3989/asclepio.1990.v42.2.556Abstract
After introducing the reader to the fundamental concepts of medical discourse on hysteria in fin de siècle Spain, the author focusses her attention on the symptoms of histeria described by Clarin in La Regenta, assessing the contribution made in the novel to the better insight into this psychic disease in a period of changing psychiatric concepts regarding this condition. She demostrates that the observations and pedantic descriptions of the novelist can provide the historian with data which are at least comparable to those obtained form conventional sources. Finally a comparison is made between the case of Ana Ozores, the heroine in La Regenta and that of Fraulein Anna O. revised by Breuer and Freur in their «Studies on Hysteria».
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