Photographic Invention of Hysteria

in the late 19th Century I

• 何謂視覺文化 ?－ visual studies: the field of study

－ visual culture: the object of study

• James D. Herbert, cp. 藝術史－ democratization

－ globalization

－ dematerialization

Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond, Inmates of Surrey County Asylum (1852-58)

石版畫。「產後躁症」 （ puerperal mania ） 的恢復過程四階段，以不整齊的頭髮再現瘋癲，以合宜的女性裝扮再現恢復理智

Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond, Inmates of Surrey County Asylum (1852)

Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond, Inmates of Surrey County Asylum (1852-58)

Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond, Inmates of Surrey County Asylum (1852-58)

因酗酒與沮喪而瘋癲的女人

Duchenne de Boulogne, Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine (1862)

Duchenne de Boulogne, Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine (1862)

“Terror”

Duchenne de Boulogne, Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine (1862)

“Fear”

Duchenne de Boulogne, Mecanisme de la Physionomie Humaine (1862)

“Displeasure” “Amazement”

Hospital de la Salpetriere, Paris, France, steel engraving from 1853

La Salpêtrière à Paris (Source : H. Gourdon de Genouillac. Paris à

travers les siècles. Paris, 1882.)

Tony Robert-Fleury, Pinel Frees the Insane from Their Chains (1876)

Andre Brouillet, A Clinical Lesson at La Salpetriere (Given by Charcot), 1887

Jean-Martin Charcot, Plates 15 and 29, Hystéro-Epilepsie, Iconographie

photographique de la Salpêtrière, vol. 2, 1878.

Paul Richer, the “phase of tonic immobility or tetanism” (1881)

Albert Londe, Involuntary Contracture, from "Nouvelle Iconographie De La Salpetriere"

Paul Richer, Second stage: the clown period (1881)

Paul Richer, Third stage: the attitudes of the passion

(1881)

D.M. Bourneville and P. Régnard, Photographic Iconography of Salpêtrière

(1876-1880)

Albert Londe, Auditory Hallucination, "Iconographie De La Salpetriere”

Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, St. Geneviève (1821)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Auditory Hallucination, Ecstasy of St. Teresa (1647-

52)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Auditory Hallucination, Ecstasy of St. Teresa (1647-

52)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Auditory Hallucination, Ecstasy of St. Teresa (1647-

52)

I saw in his hand a long spear of gold, and at the iron's point there seemed to be a little fire. He appeared to me to be thrusting it at times into my heart, and to pierce my very entrails; when he drew it out, he seemed to draw them out also, and to leave me all on fire with a great love of God. The pain was so great, that it made me moan; and yet so surpassing was the sweetness of this excessive pain, that I could not wish to be rid of it. The soul is satisfied now with nothing less than God. The pain is not bodily, but spiritual; though the body has its share in it. It is a caressing of love so sweet which now takes place between the soul and God, that I pray God of His goodness to make him experience it who may think that I am lying.

-- Chapter XXIX; Part 17, Teresa's Autobiography