Hysteria From Freud to Lacan

Hysteria From Freud to Lacan

About the Book

In the English-speaking psychoanalytic world, few diagnostic categories are as controversial as hysteria. This concept, widely held to reflect outmoded cultural prejudices aganist women, has virtually disappeared from our theoretical literature, diagnostic manuals, and traning programs. However far from being gender-bound, hysteria from Jacques Lacan represents a psychic strategy that bears on one of the most fundamental preoccupations of existence: What does it mean to be a woman? What does it mean to be a man?
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Lacanian Clinical Field Series

Lacan: Topologically Speaking
Against Adaptation
Lacan's Seminar on Anxiety
Lacan in America
Lacan
What Does a Woman Want?
Lacanian Psychotherapy With Children
Clinical Lacan
Introduction to the Reading of Lacan
Lacan and the New Wave
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About the Author

Juan-David Nasio
Juan-David Nasio, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, is Director of Studies at the University of Paris VII (Sorbonne) and Director of the Séminaires Psychanalytiques de Paris, a major center for psychoanalystic training and the dissemination of psychoanalystic thought to non-specialists. He is a former member of the École Freudienne of Jacques Lacan and worked closely with the renowned child analyst Françoise Dolto. He is the Editor of the Psychoanalysis Series at Éditions Payot. Author of eight books on psychoanalysis, Dr. Nasio has published numerous articles and interviews in leading publications and has participated extensively in French radio and television broadcasts. He lives in Paris, where he practices psychoanalysis with adults and children. More by Juan-David Nasio
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