Hysteria from Freud to Lacan

Juan-David Nasio

Hysteria from Freud to Lacan
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Other Press LLC
Country
United States
Published
17 May 1998
Pages
176
ISBN
9781892746023

Hysteria from Freud to Lacan

Juan-David Nasio

In the English-speaking psychoanalytic world, few diagnostic categories are as controversial as hysteria. This concept, widely held to reflect outmoded cultural prejudices aganist women, has virtually disappeared from our theoretical literature, diagnostic manuals, and traning programs. However far from being gender-bound, hysteria from Jacques Lacan represents a psychic strategy that bears on one of the most fundamental preoccupations of existence: What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a man?

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