La feminidad sigmund freud biography

Sergio Benvenuto: You are both a philosopher and a psychoanalyst, as your work often include both fields. What led you to your study on femininity?

Paul Laurent Assoun: The question of femininity represents a challenge to psychoanalysis; it establishes both a limit to psychoanalytical knowledge, and at the same time this concern was contemporary to the creation of psychoanalysis. In the early days of psychoanalysis, there was Freud’s encounter, as a therapist, with a particular subject, the hysteric. Two thousand years of medical and philosophical discourse on hysteria preceded that encounter; however, Freud was the first–through the use of the technique of hypnosis—to give space to the hysteric’s speech.
In Studies on Hysteria by Breuer and Freud, it is for the first time that you listen to an hysteric’s speech. Freud put an end to the discourse on hysteria–as a syndrome and an illness–in order to give attention to the speech of t Sigmund freud biography unconscious.