Gustave Flaubert

A histeria em Freud e Flaubert

Hysteria in Freud and Flaubert. This article reviews Freud’s course in his texts about hysteria and others related to it, and, following the suggestion of the inventor of psychoanalysis, intends to consider the character of a literary classic, Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”, aiming to point out the structural aspects of hysteria from the course of both, the character already mentioned, and the cons...

Gustave Caillebotte, French impressionism, and mere exposure.

Gustave Caillebotte was a painter, a collector of some of his colleagues' most renowned works, and a major force in the creation of the late 19th century French Impressionist canon. Six studies are presented as a naturalistic investigation of the effects of mere exposure to images in his collection and to those matched to them. The probabilities of cultural exposure to the 132 stimulus images w...

Gustave Alexandre Liétard, orientalist and physician.

IN 1972 the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine acquired an important collection of letters, reprints, and manuscripts belonging to Dr. Lietard of Plombieres. This collection gives an interesting insight to the thinking of medical historians interested in traditional oriental medicine during the closing decades of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century, and giv...

Sewall Wright and Gustave Malécot on Isolation by Distance

Gustave Malécot, 1911-1998. Population genetics founding father.

IN November 1998 we lost one of the most important cot completed his mathematics degree at the École Normale Superieure in Paris (Nagylaki 1989). Malécot scientists of this century, Gustave Malécot. He was, in the best sense of the words, a great man. His contributold me how he had spent 2 years reading and mastering (no doubt in rigorous mathematical detail) Fisher’s artitions to science and m...