ABSTRACT
The scientific interventions on the status of knowledge are inherent to psychoanalytic practice. Moreover, the access of knowledge is one that is not generated through self-consciousness, but in a speaking, a literation, wherein "it speaks". Psychoanalysis articulates a relationship to trauma, generation, identification, fetishization, and sexual identity. It provides a more encompassing picture of what motors the self-destructive and less comprehensible moments in human history. Hysteria in recent centuries was a matter of personal suffering and reflected cultural shifts. It also challenges one form of knowledge (medicine) with other forms of knowledge – psychosomatic complaints, sexual intimations, and an impossible and inventive array of symptoms that could morph in response to a medical intervention. Hysteria in collaboration with psychoanalysis must be given credit to that which was discovered in psychoanalysis in speaking of hysteria or even of the unconscious and its tie to sexuality.
