By C. Bollas
ISBN-10: 0203361083
ISBN-13: 9780203361085
ISBN-10: 0415220327
ISBN-13: 9780415220323
Hysteria has disappeared from modern tradition purely insofar because it has been subjected to a repression in the course of the renowned prognosis of 'borderline character disorder'.In Hysteria the prestigious psychoanalyst Christopher Bollas deals an unique and illuminating conception of tension that weaves its famous positive factors - repressed sexual principles; indifference to conversion; over-identification with the opposite - into the hysteric form.Through a rereading of Freud, Bollas argues that sexuality in itself is hectic to all teenagers, because it 'destroys' the relation to the mum, transfiguring her from 'mamma', the infant's caregiver, to 'mother', the kid's and father's intercourse item. For the hysteric this popularity is eternally demanding and the hysterical character varieties itself into an organised competition to this knowledge.True to his previous writings, Bollas' imaginative and prescient is assumed frightening and brain increasing. Hysteria brings new views to long-standing principles, making enlightening interpreting for college students and pros excited by psychoanalysis and psychotherapy alike, in addition to the lay reader who takes an curiosity within the formation of character in western tradition.
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From this, Freud makes the following link to a mental mechanism: This gap in consciousness, which might be termed a physiological one, is then widened in the service of repression, till it can swallow up everything that the repressing agency rejects’ (p. 234). Thus the hysteric finds ecstasy in a type of thinking: the orgasm of loss of consciousness. The mechanism of repression is not only sexualised, but becomes a form of auto-erotism, albeit exceedingly well disguised. This solution is rather remarkable.
Hysterical attacks are nothing more, he argues, than ‘an involuntary irruption of day-dreams of this kind’ (p. 160), although they are based on unconscious fantasies which, Freud claims, are ‘identical with the phantasy which served to give him sexual satisfaction during a period of masturbation’ (p. 161). It is interesting to note Freud’s effort to include the many dimensions of the castration complex in his 1924 essay ‘The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex’. Squarely facing the fact that the child’s masturbations elicit threats of castration from the parents—especially the mother—Freud writes that ‘what brings about the destruction of the child’s phallic genital organisation is this threat of castration’ (p.
The Christian world assigns this rupture to the Devil, who embodies all that disturbs the sacred order. As Dora exemplified, and as Freud failed to see—so taken up was he in advocating the universality of human sexuality—sexual urges seem to destroy the self’s relation to the sacred primary object, unless they can be transported from carnality to spirituality, with the soul as a stand-in for the genital. Later on, Freud would concentrate on another recognition. He saw in the young child’s denial of sexual difference the basis of psychosis, indicating a refusal of reality that would have repercussions later.
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