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- Title
Automatisme Ambulatoire: Fugue, Hysteria, and Gender at the Turn of the Century.
- Authors
Hacking, Ian
- Abstract
The article explores the role of gender in understanding ambulatory automatism, or dissociative fugue, at the turn of the 19th century into the 20th, a condition which exhibits a psychological obsession for travel with no particular motive. The author examines the male aspects of fugue and the female aspects its counterpart, hysteria, according to the author, both of which fall under what was understood to be a form of madness. The author explores the aspect of gender in the history of multiple personalities disorders and epilepsy, as well as the history of psychiatry with regard to dissociative fugue. Also examined is psychiatrist Jean-Martin Charcot.
- Subjects
FUGUE (Psychology); DISSOCIATIVE disorders; TRAVEL -- Physiological aspects; MULTIPLE personality; HISTORY of psychiatry; HYSTERIA; EPILEPSY; CHARCOT, J. M. (Jean Martin), 1825-1893; GENDER
- Publication
Modernism/Modernity, 1996, Vol 3, Issue 2, p31
- ISSN
1071-6068
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mod.1996.0036