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By Joy Damousi
Psychoanalysis—one of crucial highbrow advancements of the 20th century—is probably as a lot a cultural adventure as a scientific one. This groundbreaking publication is the 1st to envision the background and influence of Freudian rules in Australia. pleasure Damousi indicates that methods of knowing our emotional and inside lives have a outstanding and complicated historical past that demanding situations Australian stereotypes of shallow hedonism and emotional barrenness. by way of linking psychoanalysis with modernity, the e-book is, in impression, another heritage oftwentieth century Australia.
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In 1927, Idris Morgan, the physician at Newcastle Hospital, reported the case of one soldier who suffered from war neurosis. A 33-year-old lieutenant in the Australian Imperial forces was first examined in 1926. He had suffered a blow to his skull in 1916 and was unable to remember what had happened in France. Very frequently he ‘suffered complete amnesia for the events of one part of a day’. His right arm became paralysed for seven months, which was ‘accompanied by a glove anaesthesia of the whole arm’.
After seeing these methods at work, White became convinced of their effectiveness. He believed the use of analysis and suggestion should be encouraged. He predicted that they would ‘take their proper place in time in Medicine, and although there is much to investigate and a great deal to explain, a healthy enthusiasm of investigators and workers should be encouraged’. 41 The other very powerful view at this time identified shell shock as a feminine condition, and as ‘male hysteria’. Fear, cowardice and low morale were alarming because they undermined the masculinity expected of soldiers.
Freud and shell shock in Australia Shell shock was a condition that baffled the medical authorities. 16 It appeared to authorities to be more common among officers, and among men who had been thrown or buried by thundering, exploding shells. 18 Soldiers who presented with shell shock were treated initially in field hospitals near the battlegrounds. At that point they were diagnosed and, if their condition was considered serious enough, they were sent on to either military clearing hospitals further away from the front, or to specialist rehabilitation hospitals.