ࡱ> ,.+] bjbjzpzp . b b  r$EEE,cccEcEccc ycB0rc+.ccB8c SY rEEEEB ^: Name: Prof. Hedwig Schwall Affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Paper Title: Towards a new definition of the New Woman? Rereading Yeatss ideas of the individual on the basis of contemporary psychoanalysis. Yeats studies have been curiously defensive against the use of contemporary forms of (literary) theory. Text edition and biography have been major focuses of research, new studies in prosody have thrown a new light on much of his poetry. And as W.B.Yeats was a cultural nationalist, whose first aim was to offer models to help form an identity for this new nation state it is no wonder that many scholars focus on the political-historical context in which his work came into being. E. Cullingford combines this approach with an interest in gender studies (2006). But whichever the method used, all scholars agree that Yeats was primarily a theatrical poet, and indeed his development of theories on mans internal scene and his mask practice underscore the importance of the performative element in his work. Because of Yeatss focus on the mask, which is linked on the one hand to his ideas of mans psychic system and on the other to the necessity of a national theatre that should organically grow out of the interactions between peoples psychic systems, my approach will be psychoanalytic, and I will more specifically discuss the phenomenon of hysteria, which was a focal point of interest in the 1890s. Not only were the many forms of histrionic behaviour part and parcel of the New Womens scene (cf Charcots clinic in Paris, Sarah Bernhardts new body language being spread through European theatres and beyond), but Freud and Breuers research into hysteria (published in their Studien ber Hysterie in 1895) founded the science of psychoanalysis, which terms developed greatly throughout the 20th century. It is the results of this development, the refinement in the views on hysteria, as brought about by L. Isral ( 1984), I. Veith (1986), P. Verhaeghe (1987), Nestor Braunstein (1990), Borch-Jacobsen (1990) E. Showalter (1997) et al, which help us to elucidate the hysteric structures in Yeatss representation of the political and artistic women of his time, thus reconfiguring some questions pertaining to the definition of the New Woman.  (FGRS^c +-·󣛗thEhBOJQJmHsHh*H*OJQJh*6OJQJ]h*h*OJQJhEh0V5OJQJh*OJQJh*h*OJQJh*hE5OJQJhEhEOJQJmHsHhEh0VOJQJhEhEOJQJhEhE5OJQJG  ^gd*^gd-i:,1h. A!"#$% s2&6FVfv2(&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv&6FVfv8XV~ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@ 0@_HmH nH sH tH @`@ NormalCJ_HaJmH sH tH DA D Default Paragraph FontRiR  Table Normal4 l4a (k (No List PK![Content_Types].xmlN0EH-J@%ǎǢ|ș$زULTB l,3;rØJB+$G]7O٭Vc:E3v@P~Ds |w<   ^Um@F9*urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttagsplace (FW^ 1W=zY29PW=9P-i:0VE- A*B@@UnknownG*Ax Times New Roman5Symbol3. *Cx Arial9GaramondQBaskerville Old FaceACambria Math"qhKg'Kg'VV hh243qHP)?-i:0!xx fYeats studies have been curiously defensive against the use of contemporary forms of (literary) theoryO'Toole Linda.MoloneyOh+'0$0<L dp   hYeats studies have been curiously defensive against the use of contemporary forms of (literary) theoryO'TooleNormalLinda.Moloney2Microsoft Office Word@F#@TDo@TDoV՜.+,0d hp  C gYeats studies have been curiously defensive against the use of contemporary forms of (literary) theory Title  !"$%&'()*-Root Entry Fy/1Table WordDocument.SummaryInformation(DocumentSummaryInformation8#CompObjr  F Microsoft Word 97-2003 Document MSWordDocWord.Document.89q