Psychoanalysis - 2 Seminars on Hysteria - Reading List

Hysteria I

Required Reading:

Freud, S. (1905a) Fragment of an analysis of a case of hysteria. Standard Edition 7: 3-122.  

Supplementary Reading:

Glenn, Jules (1980) Freud's Adolescent Patients: Katharina, Dora and the "Homosexual woman", in Freud and His Patients. Edited by Mark Kanzer and Jules Glenn. Jason Aronson, New York, London.   

Hysteria II

Required Reading:

1. Easser, Barbara Ruth and Stanley R. Lesser (1965) Hysterical personality: a re-evaluation. Psychoanal. Q. 34:390-405.

2. Halberstadt-Freud, Henrika C. (1996) Studies on hysteria. Int. J. Psycho-Anal. 77:983-996. 3. Reich, Wilhelm (1972 [1945]) The hysterical character, in Character Analysis. Touchstone. Simon and Schuster, New York. 204-209.   

 Supplementary Reading:

1. Bollas, Christopher (2000) Hysteria. Routledge, London and New York.

2. Laplanche, J. (1974) Panel on 'Hysteria Today'. Int. J. Psycho-Anal. 55:459-469.

3. Nasio, Juan-David (1998{1990}) Hysteria from Freud to Lacan: The Splendid Child of Psychoanalysis. Translated by Susan Fairfield. The Other Press, Llc. New York.