Hysteria from Freud to Lacan

by Juan-David Nasio

Book Overview

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:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1892746026
• ISBN13: 9781892746023
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.3"