Hysteria

conversation, and not a piece of writing (it doesn 't have a known beginning, middle, and end)" (Phillips 23). Freud and Breuer had used the findings from their use of the talking cure on hysteric patients to write a book together titled Studies on Hysteria in 1895. Sigmund Freud has been known to the modern world as the crazy man that never stops talking about sex. It was not until he heard the horrific anecdotes of his patients of sexual abuse did he become interested in the topic: What Freud…

Hysteria is without a doubt the main mental issue attributing to females, precisely portrayed in the second thousand years BC, and until it was viewed as an only female disease. More than 4000 years of history, this sickness was considered from two points of view: logical and demonological. Currently, Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines mass hysteria as “a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions.” Meaning, a…

Hysteria was a very stimulating topic and many people wanted to write and read about it. It was also a topic that was discussed cross culturally. For example, “The Yellow Wallpaper” was written by a female American writer while Madame Bovary was written by a male French writer. This showed that it was a prevalent topic across the world, and that both men and women were interested in exploring this ‘feminine’ disorder. Nineteenth century literature exposes the idea of hysteria not just a…

In Miller’s play, the people of Salem were obsessed with eradicating witchcraft from their society, which ultimately led to the point in which Salem was overrun with madness. Various societies throughout the centuries have experienced widespread hysteria in one form or another, such as the anti-communist attacks during the mid 20th century. Miller lived in the 1950s, a time in which America was determined to purgerid the world of communism, which is similar to how Salem felt about witchcraft. …

The film Hysteria (Wexler, 2011) takes place in Victorian England when Hysteria was known to be a disorder caused by a women's overactive uterus. Dr. Dalrymple was an older man who owned a practice specifically to treat women of Hysteria. The treatment of hysteria was to realign the women's uterus, which is really just bringing women to orgasm. Dr. Dalrymple had two daughters in the film, whose names were Charlotte and Emily. Emily was very supportive of her father and studied pathology, while…

The Salem Witch Trial Hysteria of 1692 was caused by many factors that were of issue at the time. These factors included fear, attention seeking, and extreme religious beliefs. One summer in Salem Village, 20 people were killed and more died in the witch trial due to the hysteria that surrounded the village. The first and most obvious cause for the hysteria was the extreme religious beliefs held by the Puritans. It is not unheard of for someone to have such extreme beliefs that they actually…

in the play which is something that is not even real. The town of Salem in 1692 fell into a mass hysteria where fear in the town overpowered logic and many bad things came from it. This type of fear has happened throughout history and has always ended up badly. Fear feeds fear, so many people can become afraid that they start to believe things are real. In the play, Arthur Miller shows how mass hysteria overcame the town of Salem many times. Even more than 19 people were accused of witchcraft…

Mob hysteria is defined as a group of people, characterized by anxiety or excitement, unreasonable behavior or beliefs or peculiar symptoms of sickness. An example of Mob hysteria in history is the 2012 theory. With the 2012 theory, masses of people believed the world was going to end in December of 2012 based on theories scientists had come up with. During the McCarthy Era and The Salem Witch Trials, mob hysteria was present due to the fear of communism spreading to the United States and…

The Attack of Hysteria A Parallel on Community Hysteria, Crucible trials, and McCarthyism. A brief definition on community hysteria will be given, then a brief description of the movie The Crucible, a quick over view on McCarthyism, and lastly a compare and contrast on all three of them. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary definition on Community Hysteria states: a situation in which many people behave or react in an extreme or uncontrolled way because of fear, anger, etc.…

In "The Cruicble", townspeopleof Salem Massachutes, panicked about witches, claiming the devil was amoung them. In today's modern world, mass hysteria is not a new idea or concept. In 2012 the world panicked about the world ending. In the Aztec calendar , the years counted go up to 2012. People took it in the wrong way and assumed the whole world will come to an end that year. Due to this misunderstanding, 2012 was the most feared year, influnencing end of the world movies. Like as in the book…