| They are, she says, latter-day hysterias, psychosomatic disorders whose roots lie not in organic causes but in psychological distress. |
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| And like all hysterias, this one is based on falsehoods and is bound to do grave damage. |
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| But the hysteria against deconstruction has, as hysterias tend to do, blotted out distinctions. |
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| Hysterias have broken out before in America, from Salem to the McCarthy years. |
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