Histeria e o enigma da feminilidade: uma leitura psicanalítica

Abstract

The hysterical studies inaugurated the Psychoanalysis. After an early treatment guided by a medical training, abreaction and trauma concepts, Freud abandoned hypnosis, proposed the talking cure and elaborated the fantasy theory. Although his work’s focus had been the human sexuality study in general, the interest in women’s sexuality remained always present. Among various texts dealing with this issue, devoted an entire conference to femininity (1933) and attempt to understand about woman’s desires. Concluded that become a woman was a long and complex journey, beyond organic and biological causes. However, aware his theory’s limitations, left in poet’s charge the hope of knowing more about women. Lacan, whose initial proposal was a Freudian rereading, also paid special attention to this subject. Proposed a comparison between President Schreber case and the hysterical issue, and began several formulations about what is to be a woman – unlike Freud, who studied the woman – proposing the to be or to have the phallus dialectic, in which the woman makes herself the phallus to be loved by a man, and to be able to become the desire object cause. The issues about the femininity enigma are many, and among them, we highlight in this study the difficulties related to hysterical in their access to femininity. While the woman agrees to be a man’s object desire, hysterical refusal this position because it is intolerable to assume such an object function. Then, the hysterical are able to identify herself with the man and also the woman to get other woman’s figure to answers their questions about what is a woman and how is to be a woman loved by a desiring man. And after all, what is a woman? This search is constant and determines that woman is not, she becomes, thus opening up endless possibilities signifying chains that represent her and not to define or limit.