in some music revision for the upcoming exam just before (which i'd like to burn, or at least singe the edges a little bit) i came across a little footnote i'd written about Freud's Studies on Hysteria. it tied in with the Expressionist music/art/literary period in germany/austria about a century ago..
from as much as i can gather from wikipedia (it's an absolute whoops of a site, i know - but how great is wikmo for summarising ?)
anyway, it sounds as if the studies were the first sort of understanding and public acceptance of hysteria and mental disorders. the nicknames given to some of the most famous cases are great fun and some of the wording that i found (in bold) is really nice - even for wiki.org:
[Studies on Hysteria (German: Studien über Hysterie) was a book
published in 1895 by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer.It was not until
years after the book was published that psychoanalysis was recognized
as a legitimate psychiatric tool. In the book were presented two different
viewpoints: a neurophysiologic and a psychological cause for hysteria.]
Anna O. was the pseudonym of a patient of Josef Breuer, and was, in fact, Bertha Pappenheim, an Austrian-Jewish feminist who was treated by Breuer for severe cough, paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body, and disturbances of vision, hearing, and speech, as well as hallucination and loss of consciousness. Breuer observed that whilst she experienced 'absences' - a change of personality accompanied by confusion - she would mutter words or phrases to herself. In inducing her to a state of hypnosis, Breuer found that these words were "profoundly melancholy phantasies...sometimes characterized by poetic beauty".
Following progressive and eventual recovery, Bertha went on to, under her real
name, translate the diary of her ancestor Gluckel of Hameln.
Gluckel was a Jewish businesswoman and diarist, whose life account today provides
scholars with an intimate picture of Jewish life in Germany in the late-seventeenth/early-eighteenth century.
The first part is actually a living will urging her descendants, for
whom the diaries were intended for, to live ethical lives.
Sergei Konstantinovitch Pankejeff (Russian: Сергей Константинович Панкеев) was a Russian aristocrat and patient of Sigmund Freud, who gave him the pseudonym of 'Wolf Man' ('der Wolfsmann') to protect his identity, after a dream Pankejeff had of a
tree full of white wolves.Pankejeff later published his own work under Freud's given pseudonym, and underwent analysis for six decades - despite Freud's pronouncement of his being 'cured' - making him one of the longest-running famous patients in the history of psychoanalysis.
A few years after finishing psychoanalysis with Freud, Pankejeff developed
a psychotic delusion. He was observed walking the streets staring at his reflection in a mirror, convinced that some sort of doctor had drilled a hole in his nose.
'Rat Man' was the nickname given by Sigmund Freud to a patient whose case history was published as Bemerkungen über einen Fall von Zwangsneurose ['Notes Upon A Case Of Obsessional Neurosis']. The nickname derives from the fact that one of the patient's symptoms was an obsessive fantasy concerning two people close to him, in which a pot of rats was fastened to their buttocks to gnaw into the anus. (!!!)
Recent researchers have decided that the 'Rat Man' was in fact Ernst Lanzer, though many other sources maintain that the man's name was Paul Lorenz.In a footnote
Freud laments that long term follow-up of this case was not possible,
because the patient was killed in World War I.
in other news, it was dress down day at school the other day - and i think
99.99999999% of the zero people who actually read this go to my school anyway ? - so would have seen my comfie get-up.but if you were blinded by its goodness or something and missed it, then how lucky are you ?
the vest was just a cheap boy's jacket that i'd bought for dress-down day and didn't end up wearing. i cut the sleeves off it bc i already have a similar sleeved version, and it works really well as a loose sort of square-shouldered/square-shaped piece, i like it. i haven't yet had the chance to wear it out of the house (haha) but i've been buttoning it up a bit wonkie and it's fun. like leaving 2 or 3 buttons hang out the bottom of one side and so buttoning each one a few higher/lower than the normal..if that makes sense ? i remember doing that in primary school just about every day; buttoning it up wrong and being out by just one annoying little button, and having to start all over again bc i only ever realised after i'd finished haha.
weew
oh, and my hair was so great yesterday, i wanted to scream it from the rooftops. it's been so dry and dead since i made it white for no particular reason for mocktail, months ago ! i'd washed it saturday and it was > average then, but yday i just had to brush it and it was one big fluffball..or hairball, i guess. if we're being literal.
and oh, i just remembered, hahahahhahaa. i woke up this morning..and you know when you wake up crying when you've been sad in a dream, or you wake up with words in your head..like, the thoughts that you had been thinking in you dream..you wake up with those words running through you head ? ..i had one of those times, was so great. and funny. and weird. and why am i telling you ?:
"what's the feminine version of 'boyish charm'? I WANT BOYISH
CHARM!" hahahah. why had i been wondering that ? man i love dreams.
ch ch cheeeeeeowwwww
from as much as i can gather from wikipedia (it's an absolute whoops of a site, i know - but how great is wikmo for summarising ?)
anyway, it sounds as if the studies were the first sort of understanding and public acceptance of hysteria and mental disorders. the nicknames given to some of the most famous cases are great fun and some of the wording that i found (in bold) is really nice - even for wiki.org:
[Studies on Hysteria (German: Studien über Hysterie) was a book
published in 1895 by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer.It was not until
years after the book was published that psychoanalysis was recognized
as a legitimate psychiatric tool. In the book were presented two different
viewpoints: a neurophysiologic and a psychological cause for hysteria.]
Anna O. was the pseudonym of a patient of Josef Breuer, and was, in fact, Bertha Pappenheim, an Austrian-Jewish feminist who was treated by Breuer for severe cough, paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body, and disturbances of vision, hearing, and speech, as well as hallucination and loss of consciousness. Breuer observed that whilst she experienced 'absences' - a change of personality accompanied by confusion - she would mutter words or phrases to herself. In inducing her to a state of hypnosis, Breuer found that these words were "profoundly melancholy phantasies...sometimes characterized by poetic beauty".
Following progressive and eventual recovery, Bertha went on to, under her real
name, translate the diary of her ancestor Gluckel of Hameln.
Gluckel was a Jewish businesswoman and diarist, whose life account today provides
scholars with an intimate picture of Jewish life in Germany in the late-seventeenth/early-eighteenth century.
The first part is actually a living will urging her descendants, for
whom the diaries were intended for, to live ethical lives.
Sergei Konstantinovitch Pankejeff (Russian: Сергей Константинович Панкеев) was a Russian aristocrat and patient of Sigmund Freud, who gave him the pseudonym of 'Wolf Man' ('der Wolfsmann') to protect his identity, after a dream Pankejeff had of a
tree full of white wolves.Pankejeff later published his own work under Freud's given pseudonym, and underwent analysis for six decades - despite Freud's pronouncement of his being 'cured' - making him one of the longest-running famous patients in the history of psychoanalysis.
A few years after finishing psychoanalysis with Freud, Pankejeff developed
a psychotic delusion. He was observed walking the streets staring at his reflection in a mirror, convinced that some sort of doctor had drilled a hole in his nose.
'Rat Man' was the nickname given by Sigmund Freud to a patient whose case history was published as Bemerkungen über einen Fall von Zwangsneurose ['Notes Upon A Case Of Obsessional Neurosis']. The nickname derives from the fact that one of the patient's symptoms was an obsessive fantasy concerning two people close to him, in which a pot of rats was fastened to their buttocks to gnaw into the anus. (!!!)
Recent researchers have decided that the 'Rat Man' was in fact Ernst Lanzer, though many other sources maintain that the man's name was Paul Lorenz.In a footnote
Freud laments that long term follow-up of this case was not possible,
because the patient was killed in World War I.
in other news, it was dress down day at school the other day - and i think
99.99999999% of the zero people who actually read this go to my school anyway ? - so would have seen my comfie get-up.but if you were blinded by its goodness or something and missed it, then how lucky are you ?
the vest was just a cheap boy's jacket that i'd bought for dress-down day and didn't end up wearing. i cut the sleeves off it bc i already have a similar sleeved version, and it works really well as a loose sort of square-shouldered/square-shaped piece, i like it. i haven't yet had the chance to wear it out of the house (haha) but i've been buttoning it up a bit wonkie and it's fun. like leaving 2 or 3 buttons hang out the bottom of one side and so buttoning each one a few higher/lower than the normal..if that makes sense ? i remember doing that in primary school just about every day; buttoning it up wrong and being out by just one annoying little button, and having to start all over again bc i only ever realised after i'd finished haha.
weew
oh, and my hair was so great yesterday, i wanted to scream it from the rooftops. it's been so dry and dead since i made it white for no particular reason for mocktail, months ago ! i'd washed it saturday and it was > average then, but yday i just had to brush it and it was one big fluffball..or hairball, i guess. if we're being literal.
and oh, i just remembered, hahahahhahaa. i woke up this morning..and you know when you wake up crying when you've been sad in a dream, or you wake up with words in your head..like, the thoughts that you had been thinking in you dream..you wake up with those words running through you head ? ..i had one of those times, was so great. and funny. and weird. and why am i telling you ?:
"what's the feminine version of 'boyish charm'? I WANT BOYISH
CHARM!" hahahah. why had i been wondering that ? man i love dreams.
ch ch cheeeeeeowwwww
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