Edited by Miklós Hadas, Katalin Kovács, and Emese Lafferton

The 1998 special issue of Replika, titled Central European Hysteria, consist 
of 17 articles divided into three thematic sections. The first contains the 
life-narratives of four Hungarian women, preceded by a detailed introductory 
essay which discusses diverse and complex readings of the texts. The second 
section explores the political, social, cultural, and psychoanalitical 
meanings of hysteria in the region. The third thematic section focuses on 
the restructuring of agriculture in Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, 
and Estonia following the fall of communism. 
 

Contents

I. Hungarian Women's Narratives

Miklós Hadas, Contextual Plurality: A Shoddy Dictatorship (Introduction) 

In the Palm of God 

The Daughter of the Revolution 

Drug Monologue 

Cancer and Cure 

II. Central European Hysteria

Ferenc Erős, “The Feminine Disorder" (Introduction) 

András Lászó Magyar, The Torn-Off Veil 

Emese Lafferton, Hysteria and Deviance in Fin-de-Siecle Hungary. Ilma's Case 

Márta Csabai, Her Body Her/Self? On the “Mysteries" of Hysteria and Anorexia 
Nervosa 

Juliet Mitchell, Questioning the Oedipus Complex 

Hárs György Péter, Where Have You Gone, Hysteria? 

III. Restructuring Post-Socialist Agriculture

Katalin Kovács, Restructuring Post-Socialist Agriculture (Introduction) 

Ilkka Alanen, Emerging Enterprise Structures and the Internal Conflicts of 

Transforming Large-scale Farms in Estonia 

Deema Kaneff, Private Co-operatives and Local Property Relations in Rural 
Bulgaria 

Katalin Kovács, Strengths, Controversies and a Show-case of Failure in 
Hungarian Agricultural Restructuring: the Case of the Hollóföldje 
Co-operative 

Mária Vince and Nigel Swain, Agricultural Transformation and the Rural 
Labour Market in Romania 

Iveta Námerová and Nigel Swain, Co-operative Transformation and Co-operative 
Survival in Slovakia