Tornar-se uma outra na histeria e ser uma outra do falso self

This article consists of a comparison between hysteria and false self that begins with a project of “being someone else,” present in both pathological forms. The project of “becoming someone else” in hysteria refers to fictional characters that are necessarily present in this type of fantasy: the victim and the villain. The notion of “being someone else,” a false self, arises as the only possible way of existing in the world, where there is no place for illusion.

Hysteria; false self; fantasy; illusion; melancholia