El caso de Ana O.: Histeria y sexualidad en La Regenta

After introducing the reader to the fundamental concepts of medical discourse on hysteria in fin de siècle Spain, the author focusses her attention on the symptoms of histeria described by Clarin in La Regenta, assessing the contribution made in the novel to the better insight into this psychic disease in a period of changing psychiatric concepts regarding this condition. She demostrates that the observations and pedantic descriptions of the novelist can provide the historian with data which are at least comparable to those obtained form conventional sources. Finally a comparison is made between the case of Ana Ozores, the heroine in La Regenta and that of Fraulein Anna O. revised by Breuer and Freur in their «Studies on Hysteria».Tras introducirnos en los contenidos fundamentales del discurso médico sobre la histeria en la España finisecular, la autora se centra en el análisis del cuadro histérico descrito por Clarín en La Regenta , valorando las aportaciones de la novela al conocimiento de esta enfermedad psíquica en un momento de cambio de las concepciones psiquiátricas sobre la misma y mostrando cómo la observación y la minuciosa descripción de un novelista puede ofrecer datos al historiador al menos comparables a los obtenidos en las fuentes habituales. Finalmente, se compara el caso de Ana Ozores, protagonista de La Regenta, con el de Fraulein Anna O., reseñado por Breuer y Freud en sus Estudios sobre la histeria

Liberal governmentality in Spain: bodies, minds, and the medical construction of the “outsider,” 1870–1910

This paper traces the fragility of the subject in the period extending from the aftermath of the Sexenio through to the early twentieth century. In particular, two case studies are focused upon: the question of gender “deviance” and the figure of the genius, in order to understand how medicine participated in the construction of “outsider” identities within the context of the emerging liberal order. How did liberal rationales exclude or curtail certain wayward expressions of identity and subjectivity? What consequences did the marking of “excessive” figures or outsiders have for notions of inclusiveness and citizenship within the late-nineteenth-century liberal order? By concentrating primarily on medical texts and journals published during the period, this study builds on existing research to tease out answers to these questions

Post-Franco Theatre

In the multiple realms and layers that comprise the contemporary Spanish theatrical landscape, “crisis” would seem to be the word that most often lingers in the air, as though it were a common mantra, ready to roll off the tongue of so many theatre professionals with such enormous ease, and even enthusiasm, that one is prompted to wonder whether it might indeed be a miracle that the contemporary technological revolution – coupled with perpetual quandaries concerning public and private funding for the arts – had not by now brought an end to the evolution of the oldest of live arts, or, at the very least, an end to drama as we know it

De la metodología, a la práctica de preescolar con los niños

Licenciatura en Educació

Creación de una empresa para la formación y desarrollo de ejecutivos de la banca privada

International audienc