Defense hysteria

In classical psychoanalysis, the term defense hysteria denotes an etiological class of hysteria in which there is psychological defense . It goes back to the assumptions of Sigmund Freud , who established this class in his contributions to the " Studies on Hysteria " of 1895 immediately before the development of the concept of displacement . The term is still used today.

In the original assumption, this class was based on the mechanism of defense against an incompatible representation . In Freud's view, this intolerance comes about through a hysterical structure already present in the patient , which creates a defense. The incompatible representation remains as a memory trace and the affect torn from it is used for a somatic innervation. Conversion of arousal .

This form of hysteria has a pathogenic effect through a repression mechanism . In 1895 Freud was of the opinion that the majority of all hysterical patients probably show the characteristics of defensive hysteria. He was looking for a way to classify all other hysterical phenomena under this. This was canceled out in the discovery of psychological repression.

Compare also:

• Hypnoid hysteria
• Retention hysteria
• Conversion hysteria
• Repression (psychoanalysis)