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Visualizing and Narrating Hysteria: Georges Didi-Hubeman’s Work on the Salpêtrière Hysterics through a Foucauldian Lens

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2025, (52), pp.165~187
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : January 25, 2025
  • Accepted : January 30, 2025
  • Published : February 28, 2025

JEESUN RHEE 1

1전남대학교

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ABSTRACT

In the 19th century, French neurologist Charcot left extensive photographic documentation of his diagnosis and treatment of hysteria patients at the Salpêtrière Hospital. Didi-Huberman conducted an integrated study of medical and photographic history through these photographic materials. His work can be viewed as a continuation of the archaeological and genealogical methodologies demonstrated in Foucault’s History of Madness and Psychiatric Power in the study of modern psychiatric history. Additionally, it can be interpreted as a history of self-representation of madness, particularly of mad women. This paper aims to analyze the visualization and narrativization strategies of hysteria patients through these two perspectives and examine their significance in the history of psychiatry and contemporary times.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.