Um estudo psicanalítico da histeria em Freud e em Lacan

Abstract

The present research proposes a psychoanalytic study of hysteria in Freud and in Lacan. In this regard, this works intent is to follow the path of Freud's first contacts with hysteria. The aim is to study the first clinical cases in the history of psychoanalysis: Anna O., Mrs. Emmy Von N., Miss Lucy R., Katharina, Elisabeth Von R., examining the theoretical construction of Freud to the Dora case, which is the Case of reference in this work. The current work aims at understanding the theoretical resources Freud had to work on hysteria during the time of the treatment of the young Dora, and to analyze the contributions that this case promoted to the advancement of the Oedipus complex theory and the relevance to current studies (although it was excluded from the Statistical Manual of Mental Illness in 1994, it is present in our clinics). This work analyzes the path taken by Freud in order to formulate the three possible exits of the girl in the oedipal complex, especially the departure that Freud pointed out as the normal that of femininity. Lacan's psychoanalysis brought important contributions to understanding hysteria. It places hysteria as a clinical structure, as the position of the subject in the relation to the desire of the Other. In this regard the Dora case is emblematic, since Lacan theorized in this case that the question of the hysteric: What is a woman? Based on both theoretical perspectives – from Freud and Lacan – this study proposes an analysis of hysteria and the feminine