Psychotropes et hystérie à la Salpêtrière, le cas de Célina Marcil (1870-1879)
Célina Marcil…, a 27-year-old laundress, had been interned at the Salpêtrière hospital since 1867. Diagnosed as hysterical, suffering from vaginismus, she suffered extremely violent attacks. In order to relieve her and to keep the ward calm, the hospital’s alienists were in the habit of generously p...
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| Language: | fra |
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Association Mnémosyne
2023-12-01
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| Series: | Genre & Histoire |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/genrehistoire/8428 |
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| Summary: | Célina Marcil…, a 27-year-old laundress, had been interned at the Salpêtrière hospital since 1867. Diagnosed as hysterical, suffering from vaginismus, she suffered extremely violent attacks. In order to relieve her and to keep the ward calm, the hospital’s alienists were in the habit of generously providing sedatives such as ether or morphine to their patients. Her doctors therefore administered high doses of psychotropic drugs which in fact exacerbated her erotic delusions, meticulously transcribed in her case study. Within a coercive institution and under the libidinous glance of the medical staff, Celina Marcil nevertheless showed a certain capacity for action. Demanding to the point of violence that her doctors provide her with the desired quantities of ether or morphine, using them to intensify her voluptuous reactions, using ether to achieve the sexual pleasure impossible to reach with her lover, the young woman managed for a time to adapt to her condition. |
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| ISSN: | 2102-5886 |