ABSTRACT
From Antiquity through the Middle Ages the conceptions of hysteria ranged from "uterine migration" to "diabolic possession". Hysteria is one of the attempts to sustain the supposition of the necessity. The distinction between manifestations through impressions in the body and manifestations through "over the top" expressions does not obstruct the converging suggestions of simulation, exaggeration, or inauthenticity to characterise hysteria. In the singular encounter with the real of sexuality lies the truth to which the hysteric symptom attests. Sigmund Freud underlined a very strong diagnostic criterion for the hysteric symptom of conversion: it does not follow the laws of physiology. In the hysteric arrangement the effort is made to keep and maintain the traumatic encounter with an enjoyment that poses the question of desiring, within the realm of love. Love attenuates the shock of the traumatism, gives it a limit.
