Since the time when Freud began treating hysteria, considerable changes have occurred in dominant discourses circulating globally regarding the illness. This paper outlines these changes, noting that, according to Freud, hysteria resulted from a person’s unconscious struggle between repressive and defensive mechanisms in the psyche. However, Charles Melman questions whether or not the unconscious is involved in the process of developing hysteria, noting that the Freudian unconscious came at a particular moment in the evolution of culture in which freedom of expression dismissed an individual’s psychic repression. The authors of the present paper seek to reflect upon how hysteria can be seen today, what it intends to express, and how it manifests as a social symptom. Thus, we perform a careful, deconstructive reading of Freud and Melman, utilizing the two texts that specifically deal with hysteria: Studies on Hysteria (Freud) and the New Studies on Hysteria (Melman). Methodology: both texts will be analyzed through the lens of arguments draw from the book “L'Homme sans gravité - Jouir à tout prix” (Melman) which states that we witness the emergence of a new psychic economy as a result of cultural change; a different economy from the one explained by Freud, which promoted neurosis. The book also explains that today, individuals are psychically impoverished, lost, without shelter, without any ground, without gravity, unable to distinguish reality from a dream. We understand that in this scenario,hysteria is described as a way to demonstrate that such a situation is unbearable and also causes suffering to individuals, even if not justified by excessive repression. Another interesting aspect concerning our own conjecture is that hysteria seems to emerge as an expression of sensitivity and as an alternative to invigorate the contours of the impossible, restructure disoriented subjects, making the subjective division that in a certain way restores the desire and the dream of integration. Hysteria also functions as a way to continue to reclaim the restoration of the authority of the Father/Master, thus, to return to the position of subjective consistency. / Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Alagoas / Trata-se de um estudo que propõe uma reflexão acerca da histeria na contemporaneidade, partindo do pressuposto de que desde a época em que Freud começou a tratar o fenômeno até momento atual, mudanças consideráveis ocorreram no que tange aos discursos dominantes que circulam na cultura. Observa-se que a histeria em Freud parecia resultar do grande esforço da defesa e do recalque no psiquismo humano, que de certo modo revela um inconsciente bastante poderoso no que concerne ao mecanismo psíquico da manifestação histérica. Charles Melman, no entanto, questiona se haveria um lugar para o inconsciente - considerando que inconsciente freudiano surge num momento específico da evolução cultural - num mundo com total liberdade de expressão, de onde o recalque parece ter sido dispensado, como parece ocorrer na contemporaneidade. Baseado neste questionamento, foi proposta uma reflexão sobre como a histeria pode ser compreendida hoje; o que ela expressa ou pretende expressar, o que denuncia dos sujeitos contemporâneos e como se manifesta enquanto sintoma social. Para tanto, realizamos uma leitura atenta próxima e desconstrutiva de Freud e Melman, sobretudo os dois textos que tratam especificamente da histeria: os Estudos sobre a Histeria (Freud) e os Novos Estudos sobre a Histeria (Melman). O método utilizado foi: escrever a leitura desses textos tendo como terceiro vértice de referências importantes o livro “O Homem sem Gravidade – gozar a qualquer preço” (Melman), visto que nele é apresentada a tese de que, em decorrência da mutação cultural, assistimos a emergência de uma nova economia psíquica. Economia diferente daquela fundamentada por Freud que promovia a neurose. Neste livro também é assinalado que, hoje, os sujeitos são psiquicamente empobrecidos, inteiros e desabrigados, impossibilitados de distinguir a realidade de um sonho. Compreendemos que neste cenário, a histeria aparece como uma forma de demonstrar que tal situação é insuportável e também gera sofrimento aos sujeitos, mesmo que não justificado pelo excesso de recalcamento. Outro aspecto interessante relativo às nossas próprias considerações é de que a histeria parece surgir como expressão da sensibilidade e como alternativa para revigorar os contornos do impossível, reestruturar os sujeitos desorientados, fazendo com que a divisão subjetiva seja, de certa forma, restaurada, enquanto condição específica de sujeitos desejantes. Além de continuar funcionando como uma forma de reivindicar a restauração da autoridade do Pai/Mestre.

Orientador: Lúcia Granja / Banca: Antonio Manoel dos Santos Silva / Banca: Marcelo Bulhões / Resumo: Pensando no tema central da representação da doença no romance naturalista, principalmente no que se refere às moléstias de cunho urbano e de natureza psíquica, e em todas as séries de determinismos fisiológicos, ambientais e sociais, buscamos averiguar em quatro obras de Aluísio Azevedo - O Mulato (1881), O Homem (1887), Casa de Pensão (1884), e O Cortiço (1890) - como o escritor brasileiro incorporou à sua ficção naturalista alguns assuntos patológicos, provenientes, em grande parte, das reflexões sobre as teses cientificistas que inflamaram o final do século XIX. Buscando entender, portanto, como Aluísio Azevedo elaborou artisticamente os temas provenientes da problemática social e das questões médicas em geral, e enfocando as relações entre texto e contexto, temos por objetivo mostrar que, na elaboração desses quatros romances naturalistas, Aluísio Azevedo adotou uma visão artística que enfocou as enfermidades degenerativas da condição humana de seu tempo. Explorando tanto os aspectos das epidemias urbanas como os mecanismos somáticos relacionados à patogenia nervosa, e submetendo seus personagens ao exame social e psíquico minucioso, o romancista aderiu à equação científica, num momento histórico que possibilitou uma aproximação entre ciência e literatura, como alternativa de se aplicar, no campo da ficção, os procedimentos experimentais próprios do método científico / Abstract: The present work aims to investigate how the Brazilian novelist Aluísio Azevedo has tried and incorporated into his naturalist novels O Mulato (1881), O Homem (1887), Casa de Pensão (1884), and O Cortiço (1890) pathological issues which mostly originate from reflections on the scientificist theses that inflamed the late XIX century. To do so, this research particularly focuses on the representation of the disease in the naturalist novel, precisely on the urban maladies of psychic nature, as well as on all sorts of physiological, environmental and social determinisms. We try and evince how Aluísio Azevedo has artistically elaborated themes concerning the social problematic and medical issues as a whole. Therefore, we aim to ascertain, by laying emphasis on the relations between text and context, that Aluísio Azevedo, has adopted an artistic point of view that focused on the degenerative diseases of the human condition back in his time so as to compose the four novels under scrutiny. By exploring not only aspects of urban epidemies but also the somatic mechanisms related to the nervous pathology, let alone by his submitting the characters to minute social and psychic scrutiny, the novelist adhered to the scientific equation in a historical moment which caused literature to get closer to science. That in turn reveals an attempt to apply the experimental procedures typical of the scientific method to the fictional realm / Mestre

This is a study of a child abuse panic. The events that brought Martensville, Saskatchewan to national and international attention in 1992 were similar in many respects to other panics concerning multiple allegations of child abuse that occurred in the Western world in the 1980s and 1990s. The methodology of the study included a review of descriptions of child abuse panics published in the mass media and in books and journal articles. Interviews were conducted with residents of Martensville, child advocates, reporters, investigators, officers of the court, expert witnesses and several of the accused. Five theoretical accounts or explanations of the events were examined in detail: Satanic ritual abuse, recovered memories, false memory syndrome, hysterical epidemic and moral panic. These accounts were considered in light of broader sociological theory. It was determined that the moral panic account provided greater explanatory potential than the other accounts. Moral panics are seen as a form of distorted communication that was typical of mass media treatment of certain conditions in the 1980s and 1990s under which allegations of child abuse targeted a group of people who were defined as a threat. Feminist theory, the concept of risk society and Habermas' theory of communicative action were examined to provide insights into ways of addressing and mitigating the panic and harm that occurred in Martensville. Conclusions and policy considerations centre on the need for training of professions involved in the investigation and response to child abuse, public education within a framework of communicative rationality and, ultimately, reclamation of the public sphere with attendant expansion of opportunities for face-to-face communication in public decision-making. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

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Seu estudo sobre as alterações mentais, principalmente o hipnotismo e a histeria, deram origem às suas concepções sobre força e fraqueza psicológica, dissociação e atividade subconsciente, ideias estas que abriram margem para um novo entendimento da atividade mental fora da consciência, contribuíram para o desenvolvimento da psiquiatria dinâmica e, principalmente, apresentaram à sua época um caráter conciliador entre as novas tendências da psicologia e a antiga psicologia. Contudo, embora tenha sido um autor relevante, seus trabalhos são pouco conhecidos na atualidade e, em língua portuguesa, a bibliografia sobre ele é escassa. Nosso objetivo foi, portanto: (i) analisar o surgimento do conceito de dissociação na obra inicial de Pierre Janet, assim como as suas principais acepções; (ii) apresentar como Janet chegou à formulação deste conceito e como esse se desenvolveu ao longo de sua obra; (iii) explicar o mecanismo da dissociação segundo o autor; (iv) esclarecer o que ocorre com os elementos dissociados da consciência; (v) apresentar a relação da dissociação com outros conceitos fundamentais da obra de Janet, tais como vontade, fraqueza de síntese e automatismo e; (vi) expor as explicações de Janet para a histeria, hipnotismo e duplas personalidades com base na sua teoria da dissociação. Para tanto, realizamos uma leitura analítica da segunda fase de suas obras, que vai desde 1885 a 1894 (contendo 3 livros e 17 artigos), na qual este autor se dedicou a estudar profundamente este tema, buscando estabelecer a definição dos principais conceitos desta fase de suas obras, com ênfase na dissociação, e também as relações existentes entre eles. Como resultados obtivemos que conceito dissociação apareceu pela primeira vez nas obras de Janet em 1887 no artigo L'anesthésie systématisée et la dissociation des phénomènes psychologiques. Nele Janet coloca que a dissociação ocorre quando um item, seja uma memória, uma sensação ou um movimento, não se liga à ideia de eu do sujeito, sendo, portanto, removido da consciência normal. Porém, a partir de 1889, da obra L’automatisme psychologique, não vemos mais aparecer o termo dissociação, mas sim um novo termo, o termo desagregação (désagrégation), o qual acreditamos ser, contudo, seu sinônimo. O mecanismo da dissociação é apresentado por Janet, principalmente, quando ele explica a formação dos sintomas histéricos. Para ele estes sintomas histéricos, ou seja, as anestesias, as abulias, as amnésias e os problemas do movimento são todos causados por uma fraqueza de síntese psicológica que leva, por sua vez à desagregação psicológica. Nestes quadros, devido à fraqueza de síntese, certos grupos de sensações, memórias, emoções ou informações sobre o ambiente deixam de ser sintetizados à ideia de eu (fator fundamental, segundo Janet, para que um fenômeno possa fazer parte da consciência) e, portanto, permanecem dissociados da consciência normal, gerando, respectivamente: as anestesias, as amnésias, as modificações do caráter e as abulias. Estes elementos não sintetizados continuam, contudo, a existir podendo “ficar isolados e desaparecer ou podem se associar com outros fatos igualmente separados de toda a consciência e formar uma segunda personalidade” (Janet, 1887 p.402). A ação destes cada um deles sobre a consciência da histérica, por sua vez, é a raiz do que Janet chamou de acidentes histéricos dentre os quais estão incluídos as contraturas, a catalepsia parcial, o sonambulismo, os ataques, alguns delírios e os atos subconscientes. É possível concluir que a dissociação é de fundamental importância para a compreensão da histeria sob o ponto de vista de Janet e que é também um conceito chave da fase inicial de suas obras. / The French psychologists of the XIX century used, as one of its main methods, the exploration of the altered states of consciousness and mental illness to achieve a better understanding of the normal human mind. Among this French psychologists, Pierre Janet is a central figure. His studies on hysteria and hypnotism gave birth to his conceptions about psychological weakness, dissociation and unconscious activity. His theories held to a new understanding of mental activity occurring outside of conscious awareness, contributed to the development of the dynamic psychiatry and, specially, seemed to conciliate the two divided trends of the XIX century French psychology (the medical and the philosophical one). Even though Pierre Janet be an important French psychologist, in Brazil, there is a lack of studies about him. Because of it, our aim was to: (i) find out when Janet started to use the concept “dissociation”, its definition, and its changes; (ii) show how did Janet conclude about the existence of dissociation of consciousness, (iii) point out the relationship between the dissociation and the mental weakness, (iv) explain the mechanism of dissociation according to Janet, (v) describe what happens to the elements dissociated to normal consciousness and (vi) show the role of dissociation on hysteria, hypnotism and double personality according him. To achieve our goal we analyzed Pierre Janet’s works between 1885 and 1894 (3 books and 17 articles). As a result we noticed that the concept dissociation appeared for the first time in the article of 1887 L'anesthésie systématisée et la dissociation des phénomènes psychologiques. In this article, Janet explains that dissociation happens when an element, a memory or a sensation, is not synthesized to self, being, consequently, removed to the normal consciousness. However, from 1889 and beyond Janet substituted the term dissociation for another one, desegregation, keeping for both the same meaning. The mechanism of dissociation is described by Janet while he is explaining the hysterical symptoms. According to him, its symptoms (anesthesia, amnesia and movement disturbances) are due to a problem to synthesize sensations, memories and information about the environment (respectively) to self. This elements which were not synthesized can continue existing outside the normal consciousness, isolated or grouped, in a more or less complex system, being able to originate a secondary personality. These elements can affect the hysterical psychism giving birth to the hysterical accidents as contractures, the hysterical crises, the delirium, the catalepsies, the somnambulism and the unconscious acts. To sum up, it is possible to conclude that dissociation in a fundamental concept of the initial works of Pierre Janet and it is an essential concept to understand his views of hypnotism, hysteria and double personality.

Ce travail, inscrit dans une perspective psychanalytique propose, au travers de la clinique singulière de l'alcoolisme, une réflexion métapsychologique à propos de l'addiction, à l'appui d'un référentiel freudien et lacanien. Dans une attention particulière portée au triptyque sur lequel est fondée la métapsychologie, l'alcoolisme se voit alors abordé du point de vue économique augmenté des points de vue topique et dynamique, ouvrant ainsi autant de perspectives clinique que psychopathologique. Départi de toute conception déficitaire ou carentielle, c'est dans sa dimension conflictuelle qu'est appréhendé l'alcoolisme, hors du seul sillon narcissique. Au moyen d'une méthodologie croisée alliant cas cliniques issus de psychothérapie et cas cliniques de recherche enrichis des épreuves projectives, c'est au regard du sexuel que se trouve interrogé le symptôme alcoolique, privilégiant ainsi les problématiques œdipienne et de castration. A l'appui des concepts de répétition et de compulsion de répétition, il est dans un premier temps proposé de comprendre l'addiction en tant que conduite compulsive, aux fins de mettre en exergue la dynamique psychique sous-jacente au comportement et ce faisant, ses ressorts inconscient et fantasmatique. Figure d'un temps erratique, c'est dans ses incidences temporelles que l'addiction est mise en lumière, dans un différentiel entre cliniques de l'alcoolisme et de la toxicomanie. Si toutes deux procèdent à une subversion de la temporalité, que de la suspendre au seul profit de l'instant en vue de s'affranchir de toute causalité psychique, chacune relève d'une économie pulsionnelle propre. Si la conduite toxicomaniaque se montre massivement placée sous l'égide de Thanatos, l'alcoolisme n'en connaîtrait que de ponctuelles expressions, la dimension mortifère à l'œuvre dans la conduite alcoolique étant susceptible d'être imputée à Éros, de son excès d'intrication. Poursuivant, l'objet d'addiction, l'alcool, est questionné quant à sa fonction au sein de l'économie psychique du sujet. Envisagée comme tentative de solution de la part du sujet face à la castration et ses écueils, la conduite alcoolique se voit mise en lumière dans sa dimension de ratage, nommément phobique. L'objet d'addiction, alors entendu comme objet d'attraction, se fait le témoin du ratage de la constitution d'un objet phobique, répulsif par définition ; de cet échec, c'est alors la portée structurante de la phobie vis-à-vis de la castration qui disparaît, autant que le nouage de l'angoisse qu'elle offre - l'abstinence pouvant à ce titre être envisagée comme relance phobique. C'est à l'endroit de la figure paternelle et de ses défaillances que se poursuit la réflexion et, de la mise au jour de l'organisation œdipienne singulière qui en résulte, s'augure l'hypothèse d'un « complexe du père mort » chez ces hommes en proie à une conduite alcoolique. Enfin, le symptôme alcoolique se fait le lieu d'un débat psychopathologique entre névrose hystérique, fonctionnement limite et perversion. C'est l'hypothèse de l'hystérie masculine qui se verra défendue, la névrose se voyant ainsi abordée dans la gravité qu'elle peut recouvrir. C'est notamment des considérations quant au féminin, dans son opposition au phallique - et non au masculin - et à ce titre présent dans les deux sexes, que se soutiendra cette proposition. La question de la perte, très agissante dans les problématiques addictives, relue à la faveur du féminin, aboutit à un changement de paradigme, le narcissisme se trouvant relégué au second plan. / This work, part of a psychoanalytic perspective offers, through the singular clinical alcoholism, a metapsychological thinking about addiction, in support of a Freudian and Lacanian points of view. In a particular attention to the triptych on which is founded metapsychology, alcohol will be addressed through an economic point of view, increased with topographical and dynamic points of view, opening many as clinical and psychopathological perspectives. Divested of any deficit or carentiel design is in its conflictual dimension that will be apprehended alcoholism outside the narcissistic single way. Using a cross methodology combining cases from clinical psychotherapy and research, enriched projective tests is that in terms of psychosexuality is found interrogated alcoholic symptoms, and favoring Oedipal issues and castration. In support of the concepts of repetition and compulsion to repeat, it will be initially offered to understand addiction as compulsive behavior, in order to highlight the psychological dynamics underlying the behavior and thereby its unconscious and fantasmatic motivations. Figure of an erratic time, it is in its temporal effects that addiction will be found highlighted in a clinical difference between alcoholism and drugaddiction. If both proceed to a subversion of temporality in suspending it, in favour of instant, in order to overcome any psychical causality, each has is own instinctual economy. If drugaddiction shows heavily under the aegis of Thanatos, alcoholism would know only occasional expressions of the death instinct; mostly morbid dimension in alcoholaddiction may be attributed to Eros, because of its excessive fusion. Continuing, the object of addiction, alcohol, will be questioned as to its function within the psychic economy of the subject. Considered as attempted solution from the subject facing castration and its pitfalls, alcoholic behavior will be highlighted in its dimension of misfires, namely phobic. The object of addiction, then heard as an object of attraction, would witness misfires of the establishment of a phobic object, repulsive by definition. Through this failure, the structuring significance of phobia regarding castration disappears, as far as the knotting anxiety it offers - abstinence as such can be considered as phobic relaunch . This reflection will continue regarding the father figure and its failures and by means of the discovery of the singular oedipal organization that results, will herald the hypothesis of a "dead father complex" in these alcoholic's men. Finally, the alcoholic symptom will be the site of a psychopathological debate between hysterical neurosis, perversion and borderline. This is the hypothesis of male hysteria that will be defended, neurosis addressed in seeing the seriousness it can cover. This is particularly the considerations about the feminine, in its opposition to the phallic and not to masculine - and for that reason, present in both sexes, that will support this proposal, to authorize a re-reading of the issue of loss, very active in addictive problems, in a paradigm shift, narcissism being upstaged.

This paper analyzes and compares two photographs of women doing backbends. One is a modern Instagram photo of a female yogi by Alessandro Sigismondi and the other one of a patient diagnosed with hysteria at the Salpêtrières Hospital, photographed in Paris in the 19th century. The photographs are used as a starting point for further discussion about the meaning of images where women are doing backbends. The aim is to understand what these kinds of photographs represent and communicate. The theoretical framework is based on Roland Barthes idea of defining photography out of three perspectives as described in Camera Lucida, the referent’s, the photographer’s and the spectators. Laura Mulvey's thoughts on the male gaze in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" is a theoretical complement. The method used is Roland Bathes semiotic method from the essay Rhetoric of the image. The study shows how the photographic occasion's imprint of reality is deeply colored by the events, relationships and expectations from outside. Despite the large difference in time, there are great similarities in how the ideal female body is exposed and how women manage and maneuver within the space constructed by the male gaze.

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[pt] A dissertação pretende refletir sobre a estrutura clínica da histeria, privilegiando o lugar que o corpo possui na formação da neurose histérica. Parte- se do pressuposto de que o corpo possui lugar privilegiado para a psicanálise, tendo sido através do encontro com as histéricas e de seu sofrimento inscrito no corpo por meio de ataques histéricos, sintomas conversivos e paralisias, que Freud pôde, na contramão do saber médico, construir a psicanálise. O eixo teórico desenvolvido no presente trabalho privilegia as contribuições de Freud e Lacan, baseando-se principalmente nos conceitos de sexualidade, imagem corporal, identificação e feminilidade, a fim de pensar o estatuto do corpo para a histeria. A reflexão sobre esses elementos permitiu verificar a problemática do corpo na origem psicossexual da neurose histérica e como local de formação de sintomas. / [en] The dissertation intends to reflect on the clinical structure of hysteria, privileging the place that the body has in the formation of hysterical neurosis. It starts from the assumption that the body has a privileged place for psychoanalysis, having been through the encounter with hysterics and their suffering inscribed in the body through hysterical attacks, conversion symptoms and paralysis, that Freud was able, contrary to medical knowledge, to create psychoanalysis. The theoretical axis developed in this work privileges the contributions of Freud and Lacan, based mainly on the concepts of sexuality, body image, identification and femininity in order to think about the status of the body for hysteria. Reflection on these elements allowed us to verify the problem of the body in the psychosexual origin of hysterical neurosis and as a place of symptom formation.

Ill health, accident and death are themes common to all of Jane Austen's novels. Some illnesses are physical, whereas some of her heroines experience excessive psychological, emotional and spiritual traumas. These references are too numerous to be either coincidental, glossed over or ignored. Austen expressed an interest in the mind/body relationship, believing that illness could be brought upon in certain personalities by the sufferer herself, and it seems that she might have held theories similar to those advocated by Mary Wollstonecraft in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and even have anticipated those on feminine hysteria, and the effects of unconscious motives on behaviour, which were advanced by Freud in works such as The Interpretation of Dreams. This study examines Austen's novels, and the origin and purpose of physical and psychological illness in these, and looks at how Austen uses illness, accident and death, and more particularly how their roles progressively change and develop. For Austen's handling of these common issues appears to vary and to develop in line with the order of composition of her novels. She places increasing emphasis on them, not just to further plot, but also to reflect character change and development. Many of the parents or guardians of Austen's heroines are inadequate. And so Austen's heroines are often deprived of commendable models, left to find their own way, alone and in need of emotional support, to confront their youthful excesses, to work their way through these and to find their own destiny despite their handicaps. Self-improvement is neither pleasant nor easy, especially where one is young, inexperienced and alone. And, where heroines exhibit unhealthy or excessive interests in anything that diverts them from their paths of virtue or usefulness, the correction may frequently be painful. Thus most of the novels are, to a greater or lesser degree, filled with references to both physical and psychological ill health. This thesis examines how Austen used these illnesses, accidents and deaths in the various novels, both in the development of plot, as well as in the development of the character of the heroine in each instance. / English Studies / M.A. (English)

O trabalho tem por objetivo explicitar as possíveis relações entre loucura e feminilidade, tomando como ponto de partida observações efetuadas no exercício clínico, tanto em consultório particular como em instituições de saúde mental, a partir das contribuições teóricas de Freud e Lacan. Denominamos de atravessamentos do feminino as expressões de sofrimento psíquico, em particular nos pacientes que passavam momentos de crise ou desorganização psíquica grave e que, de formas variadas, apresentavam signos referidos ao universo feminino. Inicialmente, realizamos uma retomada histórica da construção do conceito de histeria e, neste percurso, abordamos o quadro da loucura histérica, a partir do qual salientamos como a inclusão da histeria no campo médico acabou por desarticular os três termos que o quadro de loucura histérica carregava: loucura - histeria - feminino. Em seguida, foram analisados os relatos clínicos freudianos de Dora e de Schreber, desde que ambos são ilustrativos de como certos aspectos da feminilidade que irrompem na vida desses sujeitos podem ser entendidos como manifestações clínicas, produzidas como respostas possíveis à hiância aberta pelo encontro com o enigma da feminilidade. / The aim of this paper is to establish the possible relationships between insanity and femininity, using observations from clinical practice, (private practice as well as mental health institutions), as a jumping off point, beginning with theorical contributions from Freud and Lacan. The title feminine cross-over is given to expressions of psychological suffering, particularly in patients who have been through moments of crisis or grave psychological disorientation and which, in their varied manifestations, show signs which refer to the feminine universe. First, a background study of the construction of the concept of hysteria was carried out, in the course of which the clinical profile of hysterical insanity became apparent. Using this, the inclusion of hysteria in the medical field ended up being articulated by three terms loaded into the profile of hysterical insanity: insanity - hysteria - feminine. Next, Dora and Schreber\'s Freudian clinical reports were analyzed, since both illustrate how aspects of femininity which appear in the subjects\' lives can be understood as clinical manifestations, produced as possible answers to the beance (gap) opened by the shock with the enigma of femininity.