Retention hysteria

In classical psychoanalysis, the term retention hysteria denotes an etiological class of hysteria that lacks 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 before the development of the concept of displacement. The term is out of date.

Its characteristic is the accumulation of an affect , which therefore does not come to be discharged.

Compare also:

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