Hysteria: The Splendid Child of Psychoanalysis [Lacanian Clinical Field Series]. by Nasio, Juan-David - 1997

Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, 1997. Paperback trade, very good condition, cover lightly scuffed & corner tips creased. 153 pp. The controversial history of hysteria (psychoneurosis) from Freud to Lacan. The construct is widely held to reflect prejudices against women. However Lacan did not regard it as gender-bound - one of the most fundamental preoccupations of existence was: What does it mean to be a woman or a man?'.