Georges Didi-Huberman
Author of Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere
About the Author
Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at lcole des hautes tudes en sciences socials in Paris. He is the author of more than thirty books on the history and theory of images, including Fra Angelico: Dissemblance and Figuration, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
Image credit: www.forumfoto.org.br
Works by Georges Didi-Huberman
Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere (1982) 132 copies, 2 reviews
La ressemblance par contact : Archéologie, anachronisme et modernité de l'empreinte (1999) 16 copies
Të ndërtosh kohëzgjatjen 2 copies
Che emozione! Che emozione? 1 copy
Il cubo e il volto. A proposito di una scultura di Alberto Giacometti. Ediz. illustrata (2008) 1 copy
Invention de l'Hysterie 1 copy
Sobrevivência dos Pirilampos 1 copy
Kore 1 copy
Ne Duygu Ama! Ama Duygu Ne? 1 copy
De Semelhança a Semelhança 1 copy
Pueblos en lágrimas, pueblos en armas: El ojo de la historia, 6 (Contracampo) (Spanish Edition) (2017) 1 copy
Los ojos de la Historia 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Didi-Huberman, Georges
- Birthdate
- 1953-06-13
- Gender
- male
- Education
- École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Ph.D|1981)
Université de Lyon - Occupations
- professor
art historian
philosopher - Organizations
- École des hautes études en sciences sociales
European Graduate School - Awards and honors
- Adorno Prize (2015)
British Academy (Corresponding Fellow, 2017)
Prix Richtenberger (1990)
Hans-Reimer-Preis (1996)
Prix Houllevigue (2000)
Premio Internacional de Ensayo (2008) (show all 9)
Premio Napoli (2008, 2011)
Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art (2009)
Internationaler Forschungsförderpreis (2014) - Relationships
- Didi, Évelyne (sister)
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Saint-Etienne, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
- Places of residence
- Paris, France
- Associated Place (for map)
- France
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Reviews
Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière (Mit Press) by Georges Didi-Huberman
it amazes me to think that just a century and a quarter ago in France this was the cutting edge of medical science: staged theatrics photographed for sale while fantasizing on wandering, uncontrolled uteri. I wad drawn this fascinated by the fact that "hysteria" shares an etymology with "hysterectomy". The hysteric is under control of the disordered womb. Freud put Charcot, the conductor of this symphony of female mistreatment, on a pedestal, making pilgrimages for education, cocaine, and show more autopsies. This is a translation of a work originally in French and it feels as if the poetry and metaphor from the original is at times awkward and difficult in translation. While the on site photographic studio captured psychic aurae and seizures for sexualized description, Charcot's lectures featured dramatic demonstrations of triggered throes and coercion under hypnosis. The detailed story of one unfortunate inmate is that of Augustin, sexual victim turned star performer for special freedoms, really tells the whole story of women locked away and then subsumed into kaleidoscope of proto-psychiatric patriarchal fantasy. show less
Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpêtrière (The MIT Press) by Georges Didi-Huberman
This is a really difficult book to review because it holds pretty much everything available about the women of the Salpêtrière and the photographic methods in the English language. Huberman writes in a very flowery, disconnected way that is frustrating for academic contexts but rewarding when seen as poetic asides.
The women at the Salpêtrière are a fascinating look at what I call the epidemic of "mundane PTSD"—not of men coming back from war—but of women, predisposed by poverty and show more familial abuse, developing the same horrid cycles of trauma from physical or sexual assault. The agency in which these women attempted to have over their body (either from their literal inability to control it in fits to the male doctors orchestrating them) is fascinating and saddening.
I'd link my paper but it was so personal and already a relic of who I was only a month ago. Suffice to say, I would have been sent here—so here's to healing—and my absolute madwomen sisters show less
The women at the Salpêtrière are a fascinating look at what I call the epidemic of "mundane PTSD"—not of men coming back from war—but of women, predisposed by poverty and show more familial abuse, developing the same horrid cycles of trauma from physical or sexual assault. The agency in which these women attempted to have over their body (either from their literal inability to control it in fits to the male doctors orchestrating them) is fascinating and saddening.
I'd link my paper but it was so personal and already a relic of who I was only a month ago. Suffice to say, I would have been sent here—so here's to healing—and my absolute madwomen sisters show less
Le grand critique Georges Didi-Hubermann s'adonne dans cet essai à un commentaire de l'oeuvre de Claudio Parmigggiani (né en 1943), plasticien italien associé à l'Arte Povera. Puisant sa réflexion dans l'utilisation de la suie et de la poussière pour réinvestir des espaces détruits, abandonnés ou relocalisés, Didi-Hubermann tisse un parallèle entre la démarche de l'italien et le fantôme nucléaire de la catastrophe d'Hiroshima, dont le souffle dévastateur semble encore show more résonner dans les installations de Parmiggiani.
40 illustrations en noir et blanc. show less
40 illustrations en noir et blanc. show less
Un très court texte de commentaires de l'auteur sur des photos qu'il a pris lors d'une visite du site d'Auschwitz-Birkenau. Une déambulation à regarder les traces, la mémoire de la tragédie qui s'est déroulée il y a soixante-dix ans. C'est une très belle réflexion philosophique sur le sens de l'image par son cadrage, par la focale, le sens du regard lié au hasard conscient ou pas où vont les yeux, de la reproduction de l'image. C'est également une réflexion sur le présent et la show more relation au passé, à la vérité et comment en témoigner. Il y a des passages assez bouleversant notamment concernant cette photo prise dans la zone où les Sonderkommando brulaient les corps dans d'immense fosses, maintenant comblées mais à la surface desquelles apparaissent des milliers de petites fleurs blanches délimitant parfaitement l'emplacement des fosses.
Images terrifiantes également de cette forêt de bouleau aux abords du camp qui étaient là il y a soixante-dix ans et qui ont poussés, grandis, se nourrissant des milliers de cadavres et dont l'écorce dont l'auteur à récupérer quelques morceaux est certainement marqués des cendres des rejets des crématoriums, ou du sol bétonné craquelé, fissuré d'une chambre à gaz.
C'est un texte à lire et relire, pour intégrer et faire sien les réflexions de Didi-Huberman. show less
Images terrifiantes également de cette forêt de bouleau aux abords du camp qui étaient là il y a soixante-dix ans et qui ont poussés, grandis, se nourrissant des milliers de cadavres et dont l'écorce dont l'auteur à récupérer quelques morceaux est certainement marqués des cendres des rejets des crématoriums, ou du sol bétonné craquelé, fissuré d'une chambre à gaz.
C'est un texte à lire et relire, pour intégrer et faire sien les réflexions de Didi-Huberman. show less
Jan 26, 2019 (Edited)French
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