Estudos sobre histeria: a insatisfação histérica no caso Dora

Abstract

This research aims to discuss hysterical dissatisfaction, which can be understood as one of the classic symptoms of hysteria (SOUSA, 2011), creating a process of dialogue with the case of Dora, demonstrating how Freud's writing points to this symptom in the young patient. For this, we will first perform a historical analysis of how hysteria was understood from the viewpoint of various authors and then present how, after Freud, psychoanalysis came to understand hysteria. Finally, it will be outlined how the symptom of dissatisfaction is present in the course of the Dora case. The theoretical-conceptual methodology was used, which consists of a systematic process of investigation about a certain theme, focusing on the production of scientific knowledge through the analysis of concepts associated to some theory. Initially, the historical contextualization of hysteria was carried out, to then discuss the way it was approached within psychoanalysis and, finally, to analyze the way hysterical dissatisfaction manifests itself during the course of the Dora case. Finally, it was possible to think of the dissatisfaction of desire as a structural symptom of hysteria, configuring a very representative element and opening a margin for investigations and formulations which are very important for psychoanalysis, since it allows the approximation and better understanding of how the subject (here represented by the hysteric) relates to her desire (or the lack of it).