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Patient-Monsters 3: The Turn of the Screw, a Case Study in Untreated Hysteria as Horror

Patient-Monsters 3: The Turn of the Screw, a Case Study in Untreated Hysteria as Horror

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In 1898, only six years after Gilman published “The Yellow Wall-Paper” and three years before Freud published his account of Dora, Henry James published his novella The Turn of the Screw. This work is famous now for having two entirely supportable and seemingly totally contradictory and incompatible readings: the one (which was popular when the work was…

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