Abstract
The important role of hysteria for psychoanalysis is well known–it guided Freud and helped him invent psychoanalysis and discover the unconscious. What was the role of hysteria for Lacan? Is there a Lacanian theory of hysteria? This paper explores Lacan’s development from his early training as a Babinskian, that is, someone who believes that hysteria is purely simulation, to the theory of the four discourses when hysteria becomes a type of social link, to his late confession of being himself “…the perfect hysteric, that is, one without symptoms, aside from an occasional gender error.”
Keywords:
- Keyword: Babinski
- Keyword: hysteria
- Keyword: Lacan
- Keyword: Pithiatism
- Keyword: Transference
How to Cite:
Gherovici, P., (2015) “How to Be a More Perfect Hysteric”, The European Journal of Psychoanalysis 2(1), 1–16.
Rights: Incopyright
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