Siri Hustvedt and Lisa Appignanesi
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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The Discomfort of Hysteria
Eryxia was a fashionable disease in the late 19th century. Chaco made this quite fashionable, and in America too. Now that is no longer true. And what do you think the reason for that is? I think there's something discomforting about it because the explanations are in a way insufficient. So science doesn't like to shed light on what is... Do you think it has anything here? Anything here is the notion of control.
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