Le corps hystérique : de la clinique médicale à la mythologie

Since antiquity, hysteria confronts physicians with the limits of their knowledge. Therefore, it becomes necessary to include identified signs within an extensive framework of thought, in other words in a dominant paradigm. Psychoanalysis once again can prove its special position because the discipline considers hysteria as its paradigm. And that is why, cultural shift modifies the point of view upon the suffocating body more than it affects clinical manifestations.