Hysteria in psychoanalysis – from symptom to discourse. (Hysterical and psychoanalyst – a (non) love affair) Cover Image

Хистерията в психоанализата – от симптома до дискурса. (Хистеричката и психоаналитикът – една (не)любовна история)
Hysteria in psychoanalysis – from symptom to discourse. (Hysterical and psychoanalyst – a (non) love affair)

Author(s): Milena Motsinova-Brachkova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Individual Psychology, Personality Psychology, Clinical psychology, Psychoanalysis
Published by: Великотърновски университет „Св. св. Кирил и Методий”
Keywords: hysteria; mental defenses; somatization; trauma theory; phantasm; Тhe name-of-the Father.

Summary/Abstract: Hysteria offers a particularly appropriate discourse for bringing out the unconscious, since its symptoms show how, through conversion, mental suffering manifests itself as bodily. Analytical work creates a transfer clinic and relies on a specific use of the word, which leads to unexpected findings.The development of the psychoanalytic approach today makes it clear that in order to understand hysteria, it must not be equated with femininity. The main issue of the hysterical subject is actually the issue of gender difference. Lacanian psychoanalysis introduces the idea of giving up the body in hysteria and associates the hysterical symptom with a lack of identification.

  • Issue Year: 28/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 11-20
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bulgarian