A construção do conceito de histeria em Freud

Abstract

The present work intends to explore the construction of the concept of hysteria starting from the report of the first clinical cases described in Studies on hysteria (1893 -1895) by Josef Breuer (1842 – 1925) and Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), as well as other publications by Freud and authors of post-Freudian thought that were fundamental for the study and research on hysteria. In these reports it is possible to find the origins of psychoanalysis and the value of hysteria in the elaboration of the analytical method. Realizing that listening to and interpreting hysterics was necessary was Freud's brilliant and fundamental contribution. There was no intention of discussing the hysterical structure specifically, since this would imply working in a deeper way on questions about defense, trauma, sexual etiology, etc., issues that, despite being addressed, were not with that intention. The aim was to demonstrate that Freud's work, as "Father of Psychoanalysis" and discoverer of the unconscious, when analyzing these women had desire and love as its axis. From the first reported case “Anna O.” (1895) written by Breuer and famous for the complicated ending in the face of an erotic embarrassment in which the patient ended up being abandoned by her doctor, a fact that, years later, could be unraveled by Freud, even giving clues about the phenomenon that he called the most forward as “Transference” or “Transference Love”, until the last case reported here – Dora (1905), there is talk of sexuality and love. Already at the beginning of his research work, Freud discovers that hysteria occurs “by two”, that is, the symptoms will not be symptoms without the presence of the other, without a bond to the other. Be it the love of the father, the psychoanalyst or anyone else. This other must be present so that the hysteric can be a hysteric acting on her stage, in order to obtain satisfaction there