Visual Auto/biography, Hysteria, and the Pedagogical Performance of the "Real"

Abstract

Hysteria is a theater of femininity and revolt, a fantastic spectacle that delighted the onlookers at La Salpetriere. What they saw were female bodies in crisis. What they refused to see were women bound by constraints wrapped in veils, carefully kept distant, pushed to the side of history and change, nullified, kept out of the way at the edge of the stage. My mom is not crazy, but like a puppet she too performed on the only stage possible. Better to be seen as an hysteric than not to be seen at all. -Mindy Faber, Delirium

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