L’ épidémie transsexuelle: L’hysttérie à l’ère de la science et de la mondialisation?

Abstract

This paper explores issues related to transsexuality based on the psychoanalytic notion of hysteria as the subject basic structure. The impressive hysteria epidemics throughout history reveal how hysteria produces radical questioning of the sexual difference enigma intended to the dominant knowledge of each era. To answer the question about where is the hysteria place nowadays, we launch the following hypothesis: the most significant appearance taken by hysteria today is the transsexual epidemic, produced in the encounter with the science discourse, dominant in the globalized culture.