Permanecer histérica: Sexualidade e contingência a partir do Caso Dora

Abstract

This article aims to recuperate the Freudian concept of hysteria through a reinterpretation of Dora's case, his most famous clinical case of hysteria. I would like to show why medical knowledge must accept the Freudian concept of hysteria, mainly because Freud shows the nature of major conflicts in ever y singular constitution of gender identity.