HYSTERIA AND ITS NEW NUANCES

Authors

  • Luciene Aparecida Silva
  • Ilka Franco Ferrari

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2021v27n3p720-736

Keywords:

hysteria, rigid hysteria, bodily event, phallus

Abstract

Hysteria holds a prominent place in the history of psychoanalytic clinic. Freud gave it the imprint of the Oedipus complex and of love for one’s own father as compasses for its listening. In turn, Lacan showed how these aspects are insufficient to address neurosis which, nowadays, bears the marks of capitalist discourse, and no longer responds to the father’s and Oedipus’ appeals. Rigid hysteria, presented in the context of the introduction of the Borromean knot, follows this orientation, as it shows the replacement of the father’s place in nodal terms, the symptom as a body event that goes beyond its decipherable face and, finally, of the phallus in the register of fallacy and verification of the effects of the Real. These are ways in which neurosis must be read today, aiming for the analyst’s interpretation to reach the speaking body to produce an event and not just a sense.

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Published

2021-12-01

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