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"[[Hysteria]]" ([[Fr]]. ''[[{{Top}}hystérie]]''){{Bottom}}

The nosographical category of term acquired an important [[place]] in [[hysteriapsychiatry]] dates back to ancient Greek medicinein the nineteenth century, which conceived especially in the [[work]] of it as a female disease caused by the womb wandering throughout the body (Jean-Martin Charcot, under whom [[Freud]] studied in Greek ''hysteron'' means womb)1885-6.

The term acquired an important place ==Sigmund Freud==It was in the course of treating [[hysterical]] [[psychiatrypatient]] s in the nineteenth century1890s that [[Freud]] developed the [[psychoanalytical]] method of [[treatment]] ([[free association]], especially in etc.) and began to [[form]] the work major [[concepts]] of Jean-Martin Charcot, under whom [[Freudpsychoanalytic theory]] studied in 1885-6.

It was in the course of treating [[hystericalFreud]]'s first properly [[psychoanalytic]] [[patientcase]]s in the 1890s that [[Freudhistory]] developed concerns the psychoanalytical method treatment of a hysterical woman known as "[[treatmentDora]]."<ref>[[Freud|Freud, Sigmund]] (. "[[free associationWorks of Sigmund Freud|Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria]]", etc1905e. [1901].) and began to form the major concepts of [[psychoanalytic theorySE]]VII, 3.</ref>

==Symptomatology==The classic [[Freudsymptom]]'s first properly psychoanalytic case history concerns the treatment atology of a hysterical woman known [[hysteria]] involves [[physical]] [[symptoms]] such as local paralyses, pains and anaesthesias, for which no [[organic]] [[cause]] can be found, and which are articulated around an "[[Doraimaginary]] [[autonomy]]."which bears no relation to the [[real]] [[structure]] of the nervous [[system]]<ref>{{L}} 1951b. "[[FreudWorks of Jacques Lacan|FreudSome Reflections on the Ego]], Sigmund" ''Int. J. [[Psycho]]-[[Anal]].'', vol. 34, 1953. 1905ep.13</ref>.

The classic symptomatology of [[hysteria]] involves physical [[symptoms]] such as local paralyses, pains and anaesthesias, for which no organic cause can be found, and which are articulated around an "imaginary autonomy" which bears no relation to the real structure of the nervous system.<ref>Lacan. 1951b. p.13</ref> However, although Lacan does discuss the symptomatology of [[hysteria]], linking it to the [[imago]] of the [[fragmented body]],<ref>{{E}} p.5</ref> he comes to define [[hysteria]] not as a set of [[symptom]]s but as a [[structure]]. This means that a [[subject]] may well exhibit none of the typical bodily symptoms of hysteria and yet still be diagnosed as a [[hysteric]] by a [[Lacan]]ian [[analyst]]. -- Like [[Freud]], [[Lacan]] regards [[hysteria]] as one of the two main forms of [[neurosis]], the other being [[obsessional neurosis]]. In the [[seminar]] of 1955-6 [[Lacan]] develops the [[idea ]] that the [[structure]] of [[neurosis]] is that of a question, and that what differentiates [[hysteria]] from [[obsessional neurosis]] is the [[nature ]] of this question.

This is [[true ]] for both [[male]] and [[female]] [[hysterics]].<ref>{{S3}} p.178</ref>

-- ==Structure==The [[structure]] of [[desire]], as [[desire]] of the [[Other]], is shown more clearly in [[hysteria]] than in any other [[clinical structure]]; the [[hysteric]] is precisely someone who appropriates [[another]]'s [[desire]] by [[identifying]] with [[them]].

==Dora Case==For example, [[Dora]] [[identifies ]] with Herr K, taking as her own the [[desire]] which she perceives him to have for Frau K.<ref>{{S4}} p.138</ref>

However, as the case of [[Dora]] also shows, the [[hysteric]] only sustains the [[desire]] of the [[Other]] on condition that she is not the [[object]] of that [[desire]].<ref>{{Ec}} p.222</ref>>

She cannot bear to be taken as the [[object ]] of [[desire ]] because that would revive the wound of [[privation]].<ref>{{S17}} p.84</ref>

==Treatment==It is this privileged relation between the [[structure ]] of [[desire ]] and the [[structure ]] of [[hysteria ]] which explains why [[Lacan ]] devotes so much attention to this clinical [[clinic]]al [[structure]], and why he develops the idea in the 1970s that it is necssaynecessary, in [[psychoanalytic treatment]], to "[[hysteria|hystericize]]" the [[analysand]].

==Discourse of the Hysteric==[[Hysteria]], as a clinical [[clinic]]al [[structure]], must be distinguished from [[Lacan]]s [[concept ]] of the [[discourse]] of the [[hysteric]], which designates a [[particular ]] form of [[discourse|social bond]].