Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria -- Hysteria as a Philosophical Problem -- Chapter 1 -- Between Trauma and Disposition -- The Specific Aetiology of Hysteria in Freud's Early Works -- Introduction: From Real Trauma to Oedipal Phantasy? -- 1. Trauma and Disposition in Studies on Hysteria -- 2. The Seduction Theory -- 3. After the Theory of Seduction -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 -- Dora -- Symptom, Trauma and Phantasy in Freud's Analysis of Dora -- Introduction -- 1. Two Traumas -- 2. The Meaning of Dora's Symptoms -- 3. The Oedipal Legend in the Case of Dora -- 4. Bisexuality and its Consequences -- Conclusion: Dora's un-Oedipal Desires -- Chapter 3 -- From Day-dream to Novel -- On Hysterical Phantasy and Literary Fiction -- Introduction: a Disposition towards Literature? -- 1. Hysterical Phantasying -- 2. The Novel and Hysteria -- 3. Sources of Pleasure - the Joke and Literature -- Conclusion: The Novel as Sublimation of Hysteria -- Chapter 4 -- The Indifference of a Healthy Lesbian -- Bisexuality versus the Oedipus Complex -- Introduction -- 1. From Bisexuality to the Oedipus Complex -- 2. From Oedipus Complex to Bisexuality -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- Lacan's Structuralist Rereading of Dora -- Introduction -- 1. Structure versus Psychogenesis -- 2. The Female Oedipus Complex: Frustration and Gift -- 3. Lacan's Reading of Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria ("Dora") -- 4. Dora and the L-scheme -- 5. The Lesson of Lévi-Strauss -- 6. The Hysterical Desire for an Unfulfilled Desire: the Dream of the Beautiful Butcher's Wife -- 7. Dora and the Dream of the Beautiful Butcher's Wife -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 -- Lacan and the Homosexual Young Woman: -- between Pathology and Poetry? -- Introduction -- 1. Dora versus the Homosexual Young Woman.

2. A Lacanian Clinical Anthropology of Hysteria and Perversion? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 -- Beyond Oedipus? -- Introduction -- 1. Freud reads Sophocles -- 2. A Psychoanalytical Origin Tale: Totem and Taboo -- 3. Freud's Dream -- 4. Castration as the Truth of the Oedipus Complex -- 5. Oedipus as Incarnation of the Master -- 6. Dora and the Search for a Master -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 -- Return to Freud? -- Lacan's Pathoanalysis of Hysteria -- Introduction -- 1. The formulas of Sexuation -- 2. Hysteria and the Formulas of Sexuation -- 3. Courtly Love and the Jouissance of the Other -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- The Project of a Psychoanalytical Anthropology in Freud and Lacan -- 1. Freud and Hysteria -- 2. Hysteria and Literature -- 3. The Oedipal Trap -- 4. Development versus Structure -- 5. The Human as a Being of the In-between -- 6. The Hysterical Subject, its Master and Female Jouissance -- 7. Beyond Hysteria… -- 8. Freud versus Lacan: the Position of Science -- References -- Index.