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THE INVENTION OF AGORAPHOBIA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2004

David Trotter
David Trotter
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THE LAST THREE DECADES of the nineteenth century were phobia's belle époque. During this first phase of investigation there was, it must have seemed, no species of terror, however febrile, which could not talk its way immediately into syndrome status. In 1896, in his Psychology of the Emotions, Théodule Ribot spoke of psychiatry's inundation by a “veritable deluge” of complaints ranging from the relatively commonplace and self-explanatory, such as claustrophobia, to the downright idiosyncratic, such as triakaidekaphobia, or fear of the number 13 (213). Twenty years later, in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud was to respond with similar impatience to the list of phobias drawn up by the American psychologist Stanley Hall. Hall had managed to find 132 (446).

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EDITORS' TOPIC: VICTORIAN BOUNDARIES
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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , September 2004 , pp. 463 - 474
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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