Hysteria from Freud to Lacan : The Splendid Child of Psychoanalysis (The Lacanian Clinical Field)

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Summary: An important contribution to psychoanalytic literature.
Review: Edited by Judith Feher Gurewich in collaboration with Susan Fairfield, Juan-David Nasio's Hysteria From Freud To Lacan examines the concept of hysteria in the English-speaking psychoanalytic world. Widely held to reflect outmoded cultural prejudices against woman, hysteria has virtually disappeared from psychoanalytic literature, diagnostic manuals, and training programs. However, far from being gender-bound, hysteria for Jacques Lacan represents a psychic strategy that bears on one of the mot fundamental preoccupations of existence: What doe it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a man? Hysteria From Freud To Lacan is an important and engaging contribution to the growing library of psychoanalytic literature and highly recommended reading for students of psychology, psychiatry, counseling, and the nature of what it means to be human.