ABSTRACT
This chapter demonstrates that the real of the body can be disturbed in various ways. These various disturbances require different forms of management or regulation. Sigmund Freud suggested that hysteria was the psyche in an overexcited state caused by a somatic anomaly in the organism. The main authority on neurasthenia was an American neurologist named Beard. Freud defined neurasthenia in terms of a degeneracy of the nervous system, which led to symptoms such as weakness, fatigue, irritability and pain. Although neurasthenia was already established as a neurological concept, it had been completely redefined by Freud; whereas, anxiety neurosis was a totally new concept, but because of the way it had been defined by Freud, it represented a rupture with the thinking on psychopathology at the time. The real jouissance of the body cannot be thought or comprehended, but its extimate being causes a death-drive in the human subject.
