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Three Ganser States and Hamlet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

E. S. Stern
Affiliation:
City Mental Hospital, Leicester
W. H. Whiles
Affiliation:
City Mental Hospital, Leicester

Extract

In 1897 Ganser (1) gave a lecture entitled “Ueber einen eigenartigen hysterischen Dämmerzustand.” This has been translated literally as on “A specific hysterical twilight state,” which we consider unfortunate, as in keeping the words it loses the sense of the original, for the notion of a twilight state remains foreign to us, and is better rendered as a “dimming of consciousness” or “clouding of consciousness.” Further, the concept of hysteria has changed considerably since then and his cases would now be regarded as psychotic.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1942 

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References

1 Ganser, (1898), Arch. Psychiat. u. Nervenkr., 30, 633.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2 Jones, (1923), Essays in Applied Psycho-Analysis, London and Vienna, p. 1.Google Scholar
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