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Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: The Splendid Child of Psychoanalysis

By Juan-David Nasio

Book information

Publisher
Other Press
Year
1998
ISBN
1892746026, 9781892746023
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
6 MB (6133576 bytes)
Series
Lacanian Clinical Field
Edition
1
Pages
178\0
Time added
2020-10-15 09:29:34

Description

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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