attitudes passionnelles.

"Charcot: Let us press again on the hysterogenic point. Here we go again. Occasionally subjects even bite their tongues, but this would be rare. Look at the arched back, which is so well described in the textbooks.
Patient: Mother, I am frightened.
Charcot: Note the emotional outburst. If we let things go unabated, we will soon return to the epileptoid behaviour. Now we have a bit of tranquility, of resolution, followed by a type of static contracted posture. I consider this latter deformity as an accessory phenomenon to the basic attack. (The patient cries again: “Oh! Mother!”)
Charcot: Again, note these screams. You could say it is a lot of noise over nothing."

TUESDAY 7TH FEBRUARY, 1888