The word 'hysteric' is correct and usable in written English
It is a noun that means a person who is experiencing or showing extreme or uncontrollable emotion. You can use it when describing someone who is acting in a frenzied or irrational manner, often due to fear or anxiety. For example: - The audience erupted into hysterics when the comedian told his final joke. - She became hysteric with excitement when she won the lottery. - The child's hysteric crying was a result of exhaustion and frustration. - The politician's speech was full of exaggerations and histrionics, causing the audience to accuse him of being a hysteric.
A 15-year-old hysteric called Augustine is his favourite new subject, and Darkin's choreographed study deals with madness, intimacy and the mysteries of the body as the relationship between doctor and patient is meticulously explored.
But the problem, apparently, is that "combined with their deep voices and 1940s haircuts, this rhetoric from the alpha males frames the issue in a 'practical expert versus excitable hysteric' narrative that is very hard to counteract if you are following one of them in a debate and are young and female.
Hermann Goetz's Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung (1874; The Taming of the Shrew) made Kate fall in love with Petruchio almost at first sight mutating Shakespeare's self-confident antiheroine into a hochdramatisch 19th-century hysteric.
A vacuous travelogue full of unlikeable people (but for Penélope Cruz's virtuosic hysteric), it was Pedro Almodóvar sanitised and straitjacketed after years in therapy.
His villains are cartoonish, his heroine a hysteric lost in fantasies of flying, cathedrals and mountains, her husband (John Graham-Hall) as ineffectual as the Pekinese dog in Act I. Boris Stuart Skeltonn), a preening, corn-fed capon, seals his conquest with a post-coital cigarette.
Whatever the reality, Freya veered for years between the urge to decisive, self-fulfilling action — she studied nursing and served, during the Great War, at the Italian front — and a tendency toward illness and breakdown that made her appear headed for the life of a typically quashed female hysteric.
One employee in the building — a black woman — adopted a mock-hysteric voice when I asked her about the feud.
Janet, a hyper-proper near-hysteric, senses that she's going to lose Susan as a friend because of the move, and alternately fawns over and needles her.
But how can I be a non-hysteric if I'm shrill?
Even with the song cycle to guide them, the creators recognized about a month before the Ontological-Hysteric run that the play needed some structural work.
Presented by the Public in association with Ontological-Hysteric Theatre.
