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The hysterical organization.

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  • A unifying concept for hysteria remains elusive in psychoanalytic literature.

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  • To explore the role of ambivalent desires related to passive penetration in hysteria.

Main Methods:

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  • Distinguishing between neurotic and psychotic resolutions of hysterical conflict.

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  • Incorporeal penetration fantasies offer a resolution, mitigating anxieties of destruction and guilt.
  • Case studies illustrate how fantasized (neurotic) versus delusional (psychotic) incorporeal penetration functions as a defense mechanism.

Conclusions:

  • Hysteria's core may lie in ambivalent desires surrounding passive penetration.
  • Incorporeal penetration, whether fantasized or delusional, serves as a psychic resolution to hysterical conflict.
  • Psychic structures like the 'private theatre' in neurosis and 'delusion of control' in psychosis represent symbolic vaginal figurations.