ABSTRACT
Part II will describe the perceptions of hysteria in the development of the major paradigms in psychoanalysis. Hysteria has at times disappeared from the psychoanalytic scene, but now we recognize its significance and have restored it to its rightful status. I find it important to consider the reasons that hysteria was occasionally ignored in a particular theoretical or clinical approach. I do not intend to merely provide a historical survey, but the matrix of hysteria as a unifying framework requires an overview of the development of hysteria in psychoanalytic literature and practice. My primary aim is to unite all the psychoanalytic knowledge on hysteria under the umbrella of the matrix. Hysteria presents a complex picture of theories, dynamics and symptoms, and the matrix offers general guidelines for the use of the variety of notions of hysteria and related contributions on gender, sexuality and the body.
