The theme of this paper is the body in obsessional neurosis from two approaches lines: its peculiarities in relation to hysteria and guidance by the freudian triade - inhibiton, symptom and anxiety. Given the higher incidence of publications about hysteria and according to the emphasis traditionally given to this clinical type to the symptoms in the sphere of thought, its problematic is the place of the body in the dynamics of this neurosis, in its specificities in the relationship of the obsessive towards desire and death. The body is defined as the ground in which the dilemmas relating to sexuality and to the transience of human finitude are experienced and to outline the possibilities offered by analysis. The forms and the function of the clinical manifestations of the body in obsessional neurosis are examined based on the Freudian triad inhibition, symptom and anxiety.
body; obsessional neurosis; psychoanalysis