ABSTRACT
In the present context the central issue in a review of French psychoanalysis is its preservation of the vital role of hysteria. Whereas some major works (Lebovici & Widlocher, 1980; Roudinesco, 1986; Baruch & Serrano, 1988; Oliner, 1988; Breen, 1993, Kernberg, 1996, among others) have been dedicated to French psychoanalysis, I will discuss its attitudes toward hysteria, particularly sexuality, only as it applies to the matrix of hysteria. The concepts chosen illustrate the voyage of hysteria in French psychoanalysis, but do not exhaust it.
