ABSTRACT
This chapter will commence by exploring how a new concept of body emerged in the modern era. It was the study of hysteria that initiated a discussion about the definition of a body. This observation of hysterical patients marked the starting point for theorizing about the body and has traditionally been referred to as the beginning of psychoanalysis. The hysterical symptoms were what prompted in Jean-Martin Charcot and his students, including Freud, the necessary curiosity to rethink the concept of body, and then to write about it. Therefore, I will begin by giving an overview of this subject.
