The symptomatic wedding of the obsessive with the hysterical

Abstract

When considering the suffering produced by loving relationships as the cause of therapeutic demand in the psychoanalytic clinic, we try to discuss the way in which a sexual partner can become a symptom to the subject. In the treatment of this issue, the author has examined, more specifically, the mode of symptomatic partnership between obsessive and hysterical subjects, relying on the psychoanalytic theory of the symptom partner. In this way, the article shows how obsessive and hysterical subjects respond, at the level of this partnership, to the impasses related by the absence of the symbolic inscription of the sexual report.