(1) Kal's eyes widened as he came to a pause before bursting into a series of hysteric laughter.(2) According to Renata Salecl, the male hysteric asks, ‘What kind of mask am I wearing… Am I a man or a woman?’(3) This goal is achieved in the film's narrative by transforming Billie Holiday into a hysteric .(4) As a hysteric , she highlights the insights that psychoanalysis can offer - and its shortcomings - in understanding black female subjectivity.(5) ‘You do not have cancer,’ he said, as if counselling an hysteric .(6) Mabel, who could easily have been turned into a hysteric , is handled sympathetically.(7) But is this an essential and important difference between the hysteric and the artist?(8) A hysteric who seems paraplegic behaves as if he has forgotten that he has legs; he has lost the mental representation of a part of his body.(9) A lot of people accused him of being a hysteric , a hypochondriac, a man who exploited death, kind of a Cassandra.(10) Because hysteria has no organic causes, the hysteric imitates the lesions of other illnesses.(11) As a hysteric , Beloved mimics dominant ideas about madness as well as orthodox definitions of gender and race.(12) Amid the piercing screams and almost hysteric laughter Chris escaped to quietly phone his wife.(13) For these reasons, she is an incurable hysteric .(14) By Christensen's era, religion gave way to science, and a new form of otherness evolved: the female hysteric .(15) While some German critics decry her as an eloquent hysteric , others praise her cold yet incisive observations of human lives and loves.(16) He heard Sora's mocking, hysteric laughter in his ear.
