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Hysteria, previously also known as the disease of the womb, has moved from being a woman's illness through the medieval times' stigma of demonic possession, to the modern concept of a functional neurological disorder. Interestingly to the present assay, Charcot (1825–1893) and Richer (1849–1933) described, in their 1887 work Les Démoniaques dans l'art, by means of iconography, semiological aspects of the so-called Grande Attaque Hystérique, which resembles features of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures emulating grand mal epileptic seizures. The aim of the present assay is to describe how those charcoal iconographic representations evolved through history and are nowadays portrayed in videos recorded at epilepsy monitoring units and patients' cell phones.

Diva (1864) is perhaps one of José de Alencar's most disliked novels, treated early on as a minor thing: of "a condemnable sentimentality" (Machado de Assis), marked by "elephances of style" (Franklin Távora) or, still, "work that is worth little or nothing" (Antonio Candido). However, it introduced an important innovation for the Brazilian literature at the time, which is the discursive figure of the medical narrator in the first person, who is systematically rejected by the heroine in attitudes considered as extreme. A rereading made in the light of the pioneering studies on hysteria, developed by Charcot, Breuer and Freud, and later by feminist theorists (Elaine Showalter, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar) may help to understand this rejection. The somatization of psychic symptoms in the woman's body, which would characterize the first approach to hysteria in the 19th century, represents a systematic refusal on the part of the heroine to accept the unprecedent power that the figure of the doctor was invested with throughout that time, in an attempt to preserve her private voice in the midst of a society for which women must give up their autonomy and identity. One should add to this the narrative level, since the medical narrator in Diva not only has the right to invade and clinicalize the body of his "patient" but also to expose her to the reader from his exclusive point of view. Anticipating the studies on hysteria, the serial novel in fact already represented the heroine, in Alexandre Dumas and Eugène Sue, as a threat to male power as a character and narrator (Queffelec). Binding himself to this singular literary tradition, Alencar makes Diva one of the most striking books ever written about the situation of women in the Brazilian society of the second half of the 19th century, culminating in a level of tension rarely seen until then. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The comparison between A Carne [The flesh] (1888), by Júlio Ribeiro, and O Homem [The man] (1887), by Aluísio Azevedo, has been recurring since its release. In the twentieth century, Miguel Pereira, assimilating the discourse of nineteenth-century critics, such as Pujol and Veríssimo, schematized the influence of Aluísio's novel on other novels, which was perpetrated by literary historiography. O aborto [The abortion] (1893) (by Figueiredo Pimentel), which mentions A carne and O homem as pornographic books, would be accused of copying the former. Clearly, these approximations between the novels are intended to disparage them. The three of them were reproached for the falsification of characters and even of Naturalism, but, chiefly, for having exaggerated sexual representations, being branded as pornography. Indeed, all of them were read and sold as "books for men" in the nineteenth century. However, this does not disqualify them. By showing several points of contact with each other (not just textual ones) and a link with eighteenth-century libertinism, these books point to the functioning of Naturalism as one of the manifestations of pornography in Brazil and to its libertarian potential. After all, the main cause of detractors' discomfort was the sexual freedom of the protagonists, Magdá, Lenita and Maricota. These women, more than hysterics, go back to the figure of the libertine, typically pornographic, having been compared with prostitutes. By re-dimensioning these "scientific novels" as popular and pornographic literature - taking exactly what was considered failure or excess -, their innovative character is revealed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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O presente artigo propõe, a partir dos conceitos de feminilidade e transferência, um questionamento sobre o funcionamento da transferência na clínica da histeria e o enfoque dado ao conceito de feminilidade neste contexto transferencial. O conceito de transferência surge em “Estudos sobre a histeria” (1895); para Freud, a transferência é a resistência mais poderosa do processo clínico e, também, a ferramenta mais necessária e fundamental deste mesmo processo. Desta forma, com o auxílio de materiais que abordam sobre o desejo da mulher, feminilidade, as formas de histeria – considerando o lugar da mulher na sociedade e o contexto socioculural – e por meio da análise do caso Dora, buscou-se propor novas condições de escuta que garantam a possibilidade dessas pacientes construírem para si mesmas uma resposta à pergunta “o que é ser mulher?”, que respeite o seu desejo e as formas de sublimação do mesmo. A partir deste trabalho, foi possível observar a importância do manejo da transferência e da contratransferência, que uma boa relação transferencial, junto a um setting acolhedor e seguro, fornece às mulheres histericas a possibilidade de entrar em contato com a sua feminilidade e a capacidade de ressignificar seu lugar enquanto mulher.

A lo largo de la historia del cine, la familia ha funcionado como la base narrativa del material melodramático. En ‘Tres días con la familia’, Mar Coll pone en cuestión los códigos cinematográficos del melodrama con respecto a la feminidad, la maternidad, la histeria y la represión en un relato cuya base se encuentra en el conflicto generacional y genérico. La explicitud de los conflictos de la identidad, fundamentalmente la femenina, son el testimonio de un cambio que se produce a nivel familiar y que se traslada al nivel cinematográfico.

Este artigo explora as relações entre psicanálise e fotografia a partir do Serviço Fotográfico da Salpêtrière, onde Freud realizou, em 1886, um estágio de pesquisa com Jean-Martin Charcot. À luz do trabalho de Georges Didi-Huberman, o objetivo deste artigo é mostrar de que maneira a fotografia pode se prestar a uma investigação psicanalítica. A começar pela Salpêtrière, com toda sua importância na história da psicanálise, cuja relevância fica ainda mais evidente quando a ênfase recai sobre sua célebre iconografia fotográfica.

The 1965 book Hysteria: The History of a Disease, by the German American historian Ilza Veith, certainly represented a milestone in the historiography of hysteria. Praised at first as an innovative work, unprecedented in its comprehensiveness and scholarship, it became, over time, object of multiple criticisms regarding its omissions, its psychoanalytic bias, and the teleological character of its approach. This article aims at pondering these contrasting assessments and discussing the historical significance of Veith's work from a contemporary perspective. To this end, a brief overview of historical studies on hysteria before Veith is outlined. This overview is followed by a descriptive and critical presentation of her work, a discussion of certain aspects of its reception and, as conclusion, an evaluation of her contribution and legacy to this research field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumen El artículo explora la apropiación de la terminología psiquiátrica por parte de teólogos y párrocos franceses, en el contexto de la patologización de la religión del siglo XIX. Esta apropiación le sirvió al clero para demarcar la experiencia mística “auténtica” de la simulada o “desviada”. En primer lugar, analizamos manuales médico-teológicos pensados para crear una oposición entre la histeria y la santidad, útil desde el punto de vista eclesiástico. En segundo lugar, presentamos los informes de tres párrocos sobre presuntas místicas y estigmatizadas. Concluimos que la apropiación de la retórica médica por parte del clero podía servir para definir los límites de la experiencia religiosa aprobada por la Iglesia católica.

this writing aims to be a critical reflection of the psychoanalytic notion of hysteria in light of the contributions of gender studies. It makes visible how, from an interdisciplinary intertwining from the notion that the author proposes of "renunciation gesture", different perspectives can cooperate in deconstructing psychoanalytic categories broadening the horizons of both theoretical and clinical approach. The objective is to carry out an interdisciplinary work in order to seek a psychoanalytic science that thinks from complex logics and is more committed to the current socio-historical-political and gender movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a reading of hysteria from the perspective of the phallic value, from which it is proposed that the main characteristic of this clinical type will be the identification of the phallus. For this reason, the disjunction between demand and desire is taken in the hysterical subject, without leaving aside the enjoyment and the suffering. The articulation of these conceptual elements is also treated with the clinical orientation based on the question, in the case of hysteria: What is a woman? These notions will be coupled in a clinical vignette, which results in the clinical-conceptual alliance necessary for the transmission of Lacanian-oriented psychoanalysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El presente artículo estudia el entramado estético que interviene en la construcción de la imagen de la mujer histérica en Japón. El trabajo profundiza en los recursos visuales, artísticos y literarios que rodean el fenómeno de la histeria en el bagaje cultural nipón. Para ello se acometerá un detallado recorrido partiendo de la crítica a la definición tradicional de la histeria como “patología radicalmente femenina” con origen en el “mal de útero”. Esta creencia en Japón se manterializa en variados mitos culturales, como la vagina dentata, la mujer-araña, la mujer-demonio, la mujer-venenosa, o la mujer-poseída, cuyas características se prolongan hasta su recreación en la psiquiatría moderna. Finalmente, el artículo pretende exponer el sometimiento del cuerpo de la mujer japonesa, evidenciando los discursos misóginos ocultos tras estas imágenes, mientras se relee la histeria como herramienta de empoderamiento del colectivo femenino.

Esta comunicación pretende mostrar cómo la histeria y otros fenómenos corporales históricamente conocidos (brujería y posesión demoniaca) pueden ser leídos como expresiones de un modo discursivo más allá de una mera interpretación clínica, sin decir que dicha interpretación no sea no sea posible y legítima de cierta manera. El discurso de la histeria sería aquello que se expresa desde afuera o desde adentro, pero siempre contra el conjunto de discursos dominantes en una época y en un contexto posibles y legítimos de cierta manera. El discurso de la histeria sería aquello que se expresa en lo social de modo concreto, es decir, una forma de discurso subversivo y crítico cuyo rasgo transversal ha sido el de usar al cuerpo como modalidad privilegiada de expresión.

La sordera de origen no orgánico ha sido objeto de estudio por parte de otorrinolaringología con el fin de establecer un diagnóstico certero. Sin embargo, pocos artículos versan sobre la salud mental del sujeto que la sufre. Entre las causas subyacentes se diferencian el trastorno por conversión, trastorno facticio y la simulación. En el presente artículo se expone el caso de una mujer cuyo malestar emocional esbozará variopintos síntomas conversivos, destacando la pérdida de audición por su relativa infrecuencia. Se expondrán las dificultades encontradas en su diagnóstico clínico y manejo terapéutico. Se pondrá en evidencia la importancia de trabajar conjuntamente con el resto de especialistas y entorno más cercano de la paciente.

Introdução: As perturbações conversivas são condições somáticas sem base fisiopatológica identificada e a probabilidade de resolução do quadro clínico diminui com o aumento do tempo de evolução. Objectivos: Pretendemos reportar um caso de mutismo conversivo que remitiu ao fim de 38 anos e rever de modo resumido a literatura científica sobre esta entidade nosológica. Métodos: Informação clínica obtida em entrevista e consulta de processo clínico. Revisão bibliográfica na plataforma Pubmed, de artigos em inglês utilizando as expressões “mutism”, “conversion disorder”, “functional disorder” e “aphonia”. Resultados e Conclusões: Relativamente ao mutismo conversivo, a literatura sugere a existência de uma disfunção na conectividade entre as vias relacionadas com a linguagem e as vias responsáveis pela regulação da ansiedade. O caso apresentado por nós é raro e atípico no que diz respeito à sua remissão, tendo em conta o tempo de evolução.

This paper focuses on the relationships between psychoanalysis and photography, stemming from the Photographic Service of the Salpêtrière, where Freud did a research internship in 1886 with Jean-Martin Charcot. Drawing significantly on the work of Georges Didi-Huberman, the purpose of this paper is to show how photography might be useful to a psychoanalytic investigation - starting with Salpêtrière, with all its importance in the history of psychoanalysis, which relevance becomes particularly evident when we consider the Salpêtrière's photographic iconography. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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O artigo realiza uma interpretação filosófica baseada em Nietzsche acerca do filme As Bruxas de Salem (The Crucible), baseado na obra de Arthur Miller, em uma comunidade puritana de Massachusetts onde a conjugação entre ressentimento, hipocrisia, histeria coletiva, paranoia, medo, ignorância e superstição serviram de motor para a realização de uma catástrofe social.

This work intends to understand and articulate how femininity is constituted and its articulation with the hysteria and subjectivity of our time, addressing especially Freud and Lacan's point of view on psychological theory. Starting from basic concepts of theory, we begin with the Oedipus complex and how the subjective operation of the constitution of sexuality is born with Freud based on a phallic solution. From the oedipal situation, the girl, when perceiving herself without the male genital organ, would then be constituted by someone who feels harmed by the absence of the penis. This disadvantage would leave indelible traces in its development and in the formation of its character, which Freud calls the penis envy (penisneid). However, Freud concludes his studies on femininity by describing it as insufficient since the feminine still presented itself as something obscure for him. In Lacan, some aspects of the Freudian conception are enriched, especially concerning the vicissitudes of a female position. From the paths transmitted by Freud, he is faced with something of desire that is not covered by phallic significance and, from there, gives another direction to the feminine position. In Lacan's teachings, a woman is not entirely inscribed in the phallic function and, therefore, will be marked by something that is not inscribed in the symbolic field, by a non-representable, by the Other's enjoyment, not all phallic and infinite enjoyment. We searched the literature for something that could illustrate this work and, in that search, Sidonie's chronicle, "Secret Wishes", whose real name is Margarethe Csonka, Freud's patient, was charming because of the richness of its content and its direct connection with the unfolding of this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this paper we will address the coordinates that led to the emergence of mental anorexia as a psychopathological category. We will start from the results of a series of research state-of-the-art, a review showing the need to re-elaborate the pioneering considerations around the subject-matter. By most authors' consensus, we will emphasize on C. Lasègue's W. Gull's, J. M. Charcot's, S. Freud's and P. Janet's developments. Either for the semiological value of their researches or the heterogeneity of their hypotheses, we will take their contributions and references in a dialectical ovement that allows us to re-address the substantial issues in the practice work. We will bear in mind the main areas such as: the denomination and the delimitation of the case, its description, its hypotheses, the family's place and incidence, the epidemiological distribution and the risk of the mortality high rate in the acute states. In a final section we will show some further conclusions and eventual working guidelines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RESUMEN: La histeria, un tema ampliamente estudiado, aunque solo parcialmente superado, supuso una opresión de las mujeres por el hecho de ser mujeres. Si bien hoy ha desaparecido como categoría médica, sus implicaciones psicológicas y sociales siguen presentes. Su «época dorada» fue el siglo XIX, cuando mujeres como Alice James sufrieron todo el peso de la maquinaria del patriarcado a través de su enfermedad: una invalidez que la postró en cama durante más de la mitad de su penosa vida. Determinar la etiología de su dolencia es tarea ardua, pues se ven representadas una familia contradictoria con un padre misógino, una sociedad de férreo control y domesticación femeninos como la victoriana y una suerte de «disposición psicológica» de nuestra protagonista. Alice tuvo la valentía necesaria para rebelarse, transgredir las normas impuestas y regalarnos una parte de sí misma: su Diario. ABSTRACT: Hysteria, a widely studied topic, if only partially overcome, meant oppression of women only because they (we) are women. While it has now disappeared as a medical category, psychological and social implications remain. Its «Golden Age» was the nineteenth century, when women like Alice James suffered the full weight of the machinery of patriarchy through their illness: a disability that fell on the bed for more than half of her sorry life. Determine the ethiology of their condition is not an easy work, since she lived in an weird family with a misogynistic father, a society of strict control and domestication as Victorian one and a kind of «psychological readiness» of our protagonist. Alice had the courage to rebel, breaking the rules imposed and giving us an intimate part of herself: her Diary.

O presente artigo tem como objetivo explorar a histeria pela descrição em psicopatologia fenomenológica, em especial a partir das características da sua espacialidade. São buscadas, na revisão de autores clássicos da psicopatologia fenomenológica, tais como Kraus e Dörr, as características da espacialidade da histeria, utilizando os conceitos de espaço claro e espaço escuro, sintonia e esquizoidia de Minkowski, e os conceitos de proporção antropológica, horizontalidade e espacialidade de Binswanger. A revisão desses autores permite afirmar que a histeria é mais facilmente observada no que diz respeito à espacialidade da consciência. O histérico vive essencialmente no espaço claro e horizontal da experiência de mundo, de modo que sua forma de ser-no-mundo está imbuída de dramaticidade, ou seja, de ação e movimento, intensidade e atuação, admiração e repulsa. Essa forma de ser não é patológica, mas pode se tornar problemática em razão de uma desproporção antropológica.

Se expone una breve indagación psicoanalítica acerca de la pasión del odio y su relación con el deseo, sobre la base de presentaciones clínicas realizadas durante la práctica hospitalaria. Se evalúa el decurso de dicho “afecto” en la estructura histérica, que hace mención a los recursos con que la medicina encubre o ignora el descubrimiento del inconsciente. El artículo ejemplifica, además, con referencias de la literatura analítica, así como con instantes de textos de una pieza musical e historias cinematográficas. Por último, se deja en suspenso el interrogante que surge durante la intervención en la transferencia, ya sin el recurso idealizador y esquemático posfreudiano que se menciona en el transcurso del texto.

En el presente artículo, procuraremos indagar tres vías que contribuyeron, de distinta manera, al proceso de “psicologización” del trauma. En primer lugar, la obra del cirujano Erichsen (1866), quien pretendió explicar ciertos casos de accidentados ferroviarios (ubicados en una zona gris entre la lesión comprobable y la simulación) con el marco de la anatomía patológica. En segundo lugar, la refutación de Page (1883), quien desde una perspectiva fisiológica intentó interpretar ese territorio dudoso de la clínica como la consecuencia de un shock general nervioso, producido por la acción de una emoción capaz de alterar la función sin lesionar el tejido. Finalmente, las lecciones de Charcot de 1885, dedicadas a la histeria traumática, volvieron pensable el papel que las emociones y las ideas podían tener en las situaciones traumáticas que generaban los síntomas, tomando como modelo el mecanismo de acción de la hipnosis y de la sugestión en el sistema nervioso. En el recorrido, procuraremos fundamentar que las transformaciones de la noción de trauma e, incluso, lo que cada autor podía observar y pensar, dependieron principalmente de los marcos conceptuales a partir de los cuales se abordó la experiencia clínica.

This paper aims at showing how hysteria and other historically known corporal phenomena (witchcraft and demonic possession) can be read as expressions of a form of discourse instead of a mere clinic interpretation, not saying that such an interpretation is not possible and legitimate in some way. Hysteria discourse would express from the outside or from the inside, but always against the discourses dominant in a time and context that were possible and legitimate in some way. Hysteria discourse would express in the social in a concrete way, i.e., as a form of subversive and critical discourse whose transverse feature has been the use of the body as the privileged way of expression. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last third of the nineteenth century, Buenos Aires physicians dealt extensively with hysterical pathology, especially among the female population. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the various theoretical fabrications elaborated by those professionals about the disease. After recognizing a first set of writings in which a certain morbid autonomy was not granted to the condition, the theoretical frameworks prevailing in the subsequent works are described in detail. Special attention is paid to clinical devices used by doctors in their practice, since it is assumed that those devices had a clear impact on the ways the pathology was understood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this text is to gather some arguments about the production of women's bodies and their relation to the performance of social roles in the period between the second half of the 18th century and the beginning of the 20th century respectively. More specific we will discuss Michel Foucault's arguments on the body of women since the 18th century. Thus, the strategy of hysterization of the woman's body will be our main point of reflection. In a second moment, we will try to see how a group of intellectuals has reflected on the production of these bodies and their relationship with the performance of social roles in our context until the beginning of the 20th century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article provides a brief psychoanalytical inquiry into the passion of hate and its relation to desire, on the basis of clinical presentations carried out during hospital practice. It evaluates the development of said "affect" in the hysterical structure, mentioning the resources used by medicine to cover up or ignore the discovery of the unconscious. Furthermore, it provides examples through references to the analytical literature, as well as to excerpts from musical compositions or film stories. Finally, we leave in suspense the question that arises during intervention in transference, once the post-Freudian idealizing and schematic resource mentioned throughout the text is set aside. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Initially, this paper aims to outline some historical references about hysteria, especially from its demonological perspective and regarding the "theories" which associate the idea of 'demon' to 'illnesses of the soul'. We take into account Freud's paper 'A seventeenth-century demonological neurosis' (1923), written in a time when Freud examined witchcraft, possessions and other phenomena and analyzed Christoph Haizmann's case who, harassed by convulsions and frightening hallucinations, makes a deal with the devil. In that paper, Freud associates the figure of the demon to the figure of the father, outlining a fundamental question for the studies on hysteria, which will serve for Lacan's developments about that subject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

O artigo tem por objetivo trabalhar o mal-estar e subjetividade feminina, os quais, durante séculos, estiveram sob o julgo avaliativo de um olhar masculino anclado em concepções médicobiológicas para lerem a construção do corpo-corpus do sujeito do feminino. Para tanto, revisitaremos o conceito de gênero e suas transformações no tempo-histórico para depois adentrarmos nas questões específicas de como um conceito e um determinado olhar podem construir/desconstruir a subjetividade do sujeito do feminino.

Resumo Estudo teórico que teve o propósito de discutir a histeria na contemporaneidade, considerando as mudanças culturais que podem ter acorrido desde a fundação da psicanálise até hoje. A discussão teve como cerne os apontamentos de Charles Melman, posto que seja um psicanalista que vem pensando a posição do sujeito nas condições da cultura ocidental atual. Foram destacados aspectos que nos conduziram a elaborar um pensamento em torno de como a neurose histérica aparece no contexto contemporâneo. Partimos do princípio de que sofremos uma mutação cultural, na qual passamos de uma cultura propensa à neurose para uma propensa à perversão. Tal concepção determina que lidamos com sujeitos que funcionam sob a ordem de uma nova economia psíquica e que em decorrência assistimos a expressão de uma histeria coletiva que, por sua vez, seria espaço de reivindicação dos sujeitos, a fim de requisitar um paradeiro e reinventar um pai que já esteja destituído.

The female gonadal cycle has been ancestrally linked to traits of an emotional and mutable mood, partly attributed to moon phases. This would pave the way along centuries to consider menstruation as something impure and, in the western civilization, even evil (note sexualization of sin in Christian culture). In this context and until the pathophysiology of menopause was approached with a scientific perspective, cessation of fertility and phenotypic changes associated with ovarian quenching have fostered a magical and prejudicial vision as a state related to disequilibrium, lunacy or harm. Historical portraits of women with this psychological profile through time as prophets, mystic, witches have turned in today’s hysterical, depressive or emotionally labile diagnoses. This fact reveals the impact of long standing beliefs based on myths and cosmic phenomena on the contemporary collective subconscious. An impact that, in conjunction with cultural, social and biological issues, even today, modulate the medical nosological categories.

Em uma de suas últimas correspondências, Fernando Pessoa apresentou um diagnóstico de si com o intuito de explicar a gênese da heteronímia, procedimento que o tornara notável entre os poetas de sua geração. Apontando a histeria como sintoma disparador da produção de seus outros “eus”, o poeta remete a origem dos heterônimos a um impulso orgânico para a despersonalização, que o permitiria alcançar um campo de indiscernibilidade entre sua própria personalidade e as de suas simulações. A partir de sua autoclassificação como histérico, tendo em vista a intensidade de sua produção, investigamos a potência de elementos referidos à histeria para pensar a literatura e a arte em geral, aproximando sua perspectiva às análises feitas por Gilles Deleuze de Francis Bacon. Desta forma, a heteronímia poderia ser entendida como o produto da tensão imposta à unidade do sujeito, que passa a vacilar diante das forças pré-individuais que o povoam.

Los estudiantes de medicina de Puebla durante el porfiriato elaboraron seis tesis enfocadas a la psiquiatrí­a. En estos estudios observamos que adoptaron corrientes europeas, especialmente francesas, que los ayudarí­an, a la larga, a desarrollar su práctica médica, pero que al mismo tiempo trataron de enfocarse en problemas locales. A través del estudio del sistema educativo en México y en Puebla, así­ como los autores referenciados por los maestros y alumnos, trataremos de demostrar que buscaron encontrar soluciones a los problemas de la modernidad, como el alcoholismo y la histeria, y propusieron innovaciones en materia terapéutica.

A proposta deste trabalho é trazer uma contribuição partindo da ideia psicanalítica de histeria que percorre o avanço teórico em Freud e em Lacan, para dizer de organizações coletivas. Para isso, pretendemos dedicar-nos às elaborações de Freud (1921) sobre ‘identificação por meio do sintoma’ -- que dão margem a uma suposta ‘histeria coletiva’ -- e a posterior teoria dos discursos de Jacques Lacan (1969-1970), sobre o enquadramento dos laços sociais, nos atentando em sua provocação aos ‘revolucionários’ de maio de 1968, indicando-os como alocados ao que denominou de ‘Discurso da histérica’. Com isso, pretendemos defender, a partir da noção de histeria em psicanálise, a existência de ao menos dois desdobramentos diferentes que se originam do mesmo tipo clínico. Assim, tentamos contribuir para uma melhor compreensão das possibilidades e limitações dos movimentos coletivos e grupamentos sociais, especialmente alguns que permearam a cena política brasileira nos últimos tempos.

Experimental Psychology defines a period of the autonomy of Psychology as Science and a movement of ideas that radiates from Europe to the United States in the temporal arc that can be placed between 1870 and 1930. The evidence required for a clear disciplinary independence will demand a whole field of experience, an object, instruments of measurement and laboratories defined according to criteria that are those of the Sciences of Nature. One tries to uncover the quantities of the psychic life as a system, above all the mechanisms through which the system connects to the outer world – sensations and movements. Subjects in the laboratory undergo rigorous measurements of the variables of their sensory‑motor reactions to stimuli and psychic states are investigated in their immediate conscious forms. This was a part of the philosophical Aesthetics, with its gnosiological and metaphysical themes, converted into the domain of proofs of the autonomy of the psychic system and its academic discipline. Under the strong objections of Wilhelm Wundt, the investigation of the French line of the psychiatric clinic of the Salpêtrière, or the school of Nancy, dedicated to the study of mental illnesses, like the hysteria, with the aid of hypnosis, claimed the same title of “Experimental Psychology”. Among all subjects of study, what can be considered the key, or the central problem of researchers and theorists is the relation between sensation and movement. This is a theme in which the conceptual density of the aesthetic tradition of the History of Philosophy and its concept of the unity of Man is well revealed. In the clinical context of the treatment of the hysteria with hypnosis of the Salpêtrière, the modern formation of the medium of the therapeutic relation makes its own way. One of the concepts used to conceive the therapeutic medium is suggestion. This category is embedded in the metaphysical assumptions of the anthropological continuum that psychological experimentation did not destroy, but kept. It will not only help to conceive the therapeutic pact as a purely psychological and affective relationship, but it will still serve to translate the medium of art as an irreflective and emotional medium. The arts of movement, and dance in particular, are the types chosen to evaluate, as a drama, the association between movements, gestures, sensations, and emotions in an epoch where the art medium is irreflective and doesn’t participate in the art’s message.