Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282) and index.
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Psychoanalysis as a Product of Hysteria: The Discourse of the Master -- 1. Freud's encounter with hysteria: desire -- 2. From trauma to fantasy: the Real as impossible -- 3. The theory of repression: the Imaginary as defence -- 4. Dora: the lack in the Symbolic -- 5. Psychoanalysis as a consequence of hysteria: the discourse of the master -- The Post-Freudians and the Discourse of the University -- 6. The great confusion -- 7. Lacan and the discourse of the hysteric -- The Forgotten Freud: The Shift Towards the Discourse of the University -- 8. Freud's second theory of hysteria -- 9. Consequences of Freud's second theory: primary phenomena -- 10. The rock of castration -- Conclusion: from Freud's hysteric to Lacan's Woman.