Psychoanalysis began with the treatment and theorisation of hysteria. Freud soon
found reason to place obsessional neurosis, which he regarded as a nosographic
novelty, alongside the clinical category of hysteria. Since then the categories of
hysteria and obsession have had a changing fate of disappearance and reappearance
in the field of psychoanalysis. How useful are these categories today for the practice
of psychoanalysis? As a clinician I will explore this question from a Lacanian
perspective and introduce some of Lacan’s fundamental concepts in the course of it.
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