Siri Hustvedt

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449 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky · Siri Hustvedt · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

But you're absolutely right that the way hysteria has been codified in medicine over time has often been hostile behavior.

and hostile to women, right?

And the fact is that these kinds of hysterical disorders often show up in combat veterans who were traditionally men, right?

Before women were

were in combat troops.

But then it was often not called hysteria, right?

Even though shell shock was first introduced by a man named Myers who had studied hysteria, and shell shock was indeed that.

It was a form of what was understood as a non-organic problem.

Very interesting.

So it turns out over the years now – I'm 71 years old.

I've been writing for a long time –

That, you know, the fiction and nonfiction concerns or even obsessions, of course, they overlap.

Definitely.

Yeah.

So my mother was Norwegian, an immigrant, who spent the Nazi occupation in Norway and met my father at the University of Oslo after the war.

He was...

the grandchild of Norwegian immigrants.

So they spoke Norwegian together when I was very small.

I grew up in two languages, but in the United States with three separate years in Norway.

Yes, I think so.

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