The hysteria in The Flesh, of Julio Ribeiro

The hysteria in The Flesh, of Julio Ribeiro

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This paper analyzes the novel The flesh of Julio Ribeiro, from the perspective of freudian psychoanalysis.The book, a naturalistic novel published in 1888, criticizes the formation of gender roles in nineteenth-century culture and anticipates psychoanalytic ideas about sexuality and hysteria, which KIDS CONTINUOUS SPRAY SPF 50+ allows an interesting approach between literature and psychoanalysis.The analysis is focused on the development of the two central characters, Lenita and Manduca.We observed in Lenita a transformation of hysteria, first it appears like a illness, after to transgression and thence like a critique of sexuality and gender roles.

The male anxieties and conflicts are SUNFLOW VIT E marked by silence, a discursive failure which does not allow psychopathological ratings.At the end the hysteric Lenita interrupts a long cycle of compulsive repetition and Manduca linearly stay mute and succumbs.Returning to the beginning of psychoanalysis observe the same phenomenon: the difficulty, admitted by Freud, in exposing male hysteria.