The Right on Lovecraft (was: Beyond the Beltway - the real Americ an Right)

[Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema]

Many of the comments that responded to this have been useful. Let me
also suggest Edward Shorter's A HISTORY OF WOMEN'S BODIES, and Steven
Marcus' THE OTHER VICTORIANS, and FREUD AND THE CULTURE OF
PSYCHOANALYSIS.

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema

Alec Ramsdell wrote:


> Michael Pugliese wrote:
>
> >   True that the roots of the word "hysteria" are
> > sexist? "Womb sickness"???
>
> That's correct.  I was talking with someone the other
> night working on a history of hysteria, and the
> accounts she's read have "womb sickness" as something
> that moved around the body (it could start in the womb
> and make its way to the neck, for instance).  So one
> sees the beginning of a proliferation of gendered
> illnesses.  This is way before Freud.
>
> Some male-gendered equivalents include neurasthenia
> and melancholy.  What is, and what are the historical
> origins of neurasthenia?
>
> Alec
>
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