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Rob Weatherill – Culture and Hysteria

 

THE LETTER 03 (Spring 1995) pages 45-52

 

On 16 April 58, Lacan writes about Freud that his ‘only mistake, as one might say was, drawn along in a way by the necessities of language, to orientate in a premature fashion, to put the subject, to implicate the subject in too definite a fashion in this situation of desire’ This would by now be a familiar Lacanian complaint about the non-Lacanian treatment of the hysteric; that is, as I understand it, the consideration of hysteria outside the context of the construction of human subjectivity itself. Here, the non-Lacanians see the sexually-coloured excessive demandingness of the hysteric within the narrower context of some...

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