Louise Bourgeois sculpted the Arch of Hysteria in 1993 in a bronze cast. It is hanging in the MoMA in NYC. This was the first body she had sculpted that she put into this type of position.Her sculpture was based off the body of a man named Jerry Gorovoy who she had lay down on a curved mound to get the shape she wanted. Bourgeois utilized the human body to show her own emotions, traumas, and memories. I find it interesting that the sculpture has no head and that it's clearly portraying a male hysteric when there is a stereotype of women being hysterical.
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