Charcot, working and “male hysteria”: a new approach to the leçons du mardi (Tuesday lessons) from the standpoint of psychodynamics of work

Authors

  • Pascale Molinier Profesora de Psicología Social de la Université Paris 13 Villetaneuse. Directora de la Unité Transversale de Recherche Psychogenèse et Psychopathologie, Directora adjunta del Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique-Institut du Genre (GIS-IDG)

Keywords:

Charcot, Freud, Male hysteria, Trauma, Psychodynamics of work

Abstract

This paper examines the role of work in Charcot’s clinical teaching focusing on cases of male hysteria in The Tuesday’s Lessons
from 1887 to 1889. Today, we read the work of Charcot in a retrospective way as having ended in a failure: He would have
missed the discovery of the sexual unconscious. From the perspective of psychodynamics of work, it appears an alternative
way which was present in Charcot, though unfinished, opening on a possible development of a relationship between psychic
and body. The role of work in traumatic hysteria has been forgotten by Freud’s posterity and this obliteration continues today.

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Published

2016-01-10

How to Cite

Molinier, P. (2016). Charcot, working and “male hysteria”: a new approach to the leçons du mardi (Tuesday lessons) from the standpoint of psychodynamics of work. Vertex Revista Argentina De Psiquiatría, 26(124, nov.-dic.), 453–460. Retrieved from https://revistavertex.com.ar/ojs/index.php/vertex/article/view/780

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 124, nov.-dic. (2015): Trabajo y salud mental

Section

Dossier