Faces da histeria feminina: o desassossego dos sintomas conversivos e o silêncio nos estados depressivos

Abstract

Studies on hysterical neurosis explicitly or implicitly point to the need to determine the nature of what we will call hysterical hysterical suffering and depressive states in this work. Our hypothesis is that depressive states are present in female hysteria causing it to suffer atrocious suffering in patients. Although every symptom is, as Freud has shown, a compromise solution and therefore contains a satisfaction, this seems more evident in hysteria, which causes a certain discredit in relation to its suffering in its attendance in the clinics and clinics. In this work we make a tour of the Freudian texts by pointing out from them some of their fundamental aspects: the association between hysteria and feminine and the importance of narcissistic regression in hysteria. Three clinical cases are presented and certain questions regarding the hypothesis are highlighted. In addition to allowing clarification of what are called depressive states in this work, clinical discussions will illustrate some hysterical traits and the difficulty experienced by the analyst in letting himself be affected by such suffering. Freudian elaborations on melancholy and on the differences between melancholy and depression are revisited. Moments of melancholy often arise in the treatments of the most different pathologies, the interest they arouse here comes, however, from the path they point out: suffering and pain in hysteria. In the bankruptcy of the hysterical defenses towards the conquest of a feminine position, something of the order of a "wound" seems to open up. The subject abandons the incessant demand to be loved unconditionally and the castration, hitherto circumvented by the hysterical mechanisms, begins to be established, provoking an emptying of the senses and installing the threat of nothingness. The hysterical subject resists his dissatisfaction, claiming that he does not have what he wants, so as not to see his fragile narcissistic identification shattered. In a moment of narcissistic withdrawal in hysteria it is proposed to differentiate the experience from nothingness, destroyer of the realm of fantasy, of the emptiness that is associated with the feminine and that, supported in the transference, can constitute a space for the construction of the metaphor and assimilation of the absence