'Ideas In Psychoanalysis' is a series of essays which explain psychoanalytical concepts, their relevance to everyday life and their ability to illuminate the nature of human society and culture.
Hysteria was once simultaneously physical illness, an illness without physical symptoms - and something unmistakably feminine. Freud and Charcot diagnosed Hysteria as a psychological trauma manifesting itself through the body - its cure resting between therapy and medicine. This book examines, too, some of the 'hysterical identifications' of our time, from dictatorship to pop culture.
