Hysteria from Freud to Lacan

Author/Contributor(s):	Nasio, Juan-David
Publisher:	Other Press
Date:	5/17/1998
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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?