Attitudes passionnelles
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Attitudes passionnelles is the informal title given to a series of ten photographs first published in the book Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1875 - 1879), which carried as first caption "ATTITUDES PASSIONNELLES". The photos depict Salpêtrière star patient Louise Augustine. The most famous photos of the series are Planche XXIII[1] and Planche XXVI[2].
The second-level captions are as follows: Planche XVIII – “Ménace,”[3] Planche XIX – “Appel,”[4] Planche XX – “Supplication Amoureuse,”[5] Planche XXI – “Erotisme,”[6] Planche XXII – “Extase (1876),”[7] Planche XXIII – “Extase (1878),”[8] Planche XXIV – “Hallucinations de l'Ouïe,” Planche XXV – “Crucifiement[9],” Planche XXVI – “Moquérie,”[10] and Planche XXVII - Menace[11].
One of the four phases of an hysterical attack
Attitudes passionnelles is also the name Charcot gave to the third phase of an hysterical attack.
These phases are:
- Première période ou épilepioide:
- a) phase tonique;
- b) phase clonique ;
- c) phase de résolution musculaire ou de stertor
- Deuxième période ou de clownisme:
- a) phase des attitudes passionnelles ;
- b) phase des grands mouvements. — Arc de cercle.
- Troisième période ou des attitudes passionnelles.
- Quatrième période ou de délire: continuation de la troisième
See also
- Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière (1875 - 1879) by Désiré-Magloire Bourneville and Paul Regnard
- Louise Augustine
- Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere (Macula, 1982) by Georges Didi-Huberman
- Mental disorders in art
References
- Found, borrowed and stolen: the use of photographs in French surrealist reviews, 1924-1939 (2006) by Linda Marie Steer
- Planche XXIV – “Hallucinations de l'Ouïe,” is [12]?