ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses discourse of the hysteric which is built on a sharp distinction between the jouissance of the phallic organ in sexual intercourse and that of surplus-enjoyment as a condition of the master's knowledge. Jacques Lacan trying to explain what the properly sexual symptom of hysteria was—one that cannot be reduced either to a strike or to asexual surplus-enjoyment. The Freudian hysterias are determined by two factors: on the one hand, contemporary discourse; on the other hand, the Freudian operation. Clinically speaking, the key phenomenon of hysteria is a systematic lack of satisfaction, that is, a lack that is cultivated, to distinguish it from the generic dissatisfaction of any speaking being. Hysteria therefore represents a perfect symptom-bond, which may exist in both a hetero- and homosexual version. The structure of the hysterical social bond does not change—it is transhistorical.
