Charcot, hysteria designer
Or the medical criticism of art
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https://doi.org/10.4013/%20fsu.2025.262.05Keywords:
science, art, naturalism, Charcot, Freud.Abstract
Article dedicated to reconstructing, through a biographical and bibliographical review, the scientific-aesthetic project of the Salpêtrière hospital in the second half of the 19th century, highlighting Martin Charcot and collaborators’ interest in art, especially drawing as an instrument for research, nosography, diagnosis, and teaching of hysteria. It aims to show that this interest took effect in the proposal of a reciprocal relationship of influence and collaboration between medical science and art, giving the former the status of medical criticism of art, with naturalism as its artistic ideal. It ends with a critical reflection that evaluates the results of such collaboration between science and art, as well as the consequences of this cooperation following the advent of Freudian psychoanalysis.
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