Fragment of a Case of Posthysteria: D’or Owns the Jewel

Abstract

A major radical transformation from nineteenth-century hysteric to twenty-first-century posthysteric is a transformation in discourse and, of course, in agency embedded in that discourse. In this narration Dora becomes posthysteric D'Or. The French meaning of name is golden. Freud gave his star hysteric name of his sister's maidservant, Dora (O'Neill 80). Lacan refers to Dora and two other hysterical patients as mouths of for knowledge Freud gathered from them (Lacan XVII 99). It is said of name that: People with this name tend to initiate events, to be leaders rather than followers, with powerful personalities. They tend to be focused on specific goals, experience a wealth of creative new ideas, and have ability to implement these ideas with efficiency and determination. They tend to be courageous and sometimes aggressive. As unique, creative individuals, they tend to resent authority, and are sometimes stubborn, proud, and impatient. (www.sheknows.com/babynames/name/d'or) The name alteration indicates that posthysteric has gone beyond hysteric's positioning as a servant to Freud and psychoanalysis: in nineteenth century, tracks of psychoanalysis were laid on back of hysteric. In twenty-first century posthysteric drives a gold spike through these tracks and in so doing reroutes way and destination. In name alteration, missing a that changes Dora to is a of object a, truth position in Lacan's famous four discourses. Object a is embodied in as agent who occupies discourse positions of Master S1, Analyst a, and University S2, in addition to position of Hysteric $. This, of course, changes agent position of barred subject $ of hysteric to posthysteric position that blends structural positions of truth/agent/production/other into a new agency that can be written as a-$-S2-S1 and a new discourse: Discourse of Posthysteric. In presenting case of I take my utterances regarding case and assertion of my interpreted scenarios as reality; this is to say that what I in dominant position of Master ([s.sub.1]) detail about in subsection 4, Eighteen year old D'or, is presented as objective fact and I refuse to acknowledge that scenarios derived are constructed. I in position analyst (a) in subsection 5, D'or Owns Jewel: and Female Ejaculatory Agency, re-member is accomplished through postmodern techniques of queering and speed; what I in dominant position of Knowledge (S2) in subsection 5 reveal is techne of female ejaculation; and, what I in dominant position of posthysteric ($) bring forth in subsections 4 and 5 is an ownership of female phallus by providing blade for hysteric's double-edged sword questions: What is female organ? What is it to be a woman? (Lacan III 171). It is additional third question that asks, How to [female] ejaculate?, which reworks hysteric's two questions and in so doing not only brings the master to heel (Lacan XVIII, X, 11), which hysteric was capable of doing, but also brings psychoanalysis to its knees. A Matheme in which hysteric $/S1/S2/a becomes posthysteric a-$-S2-S1 This subsection sets out 1) formal structure of Lacan's Four Discourses, paying particular attention to vectors or arrows of circuit, 2) matheme of Lacan's Discourse of Hysteric, and 3) my matheme of Discourse of Posthysteric. Formal Structure (Lacan XX 17 and Lacan, Milan Lecture) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The one speaking, agent, addresses herself to other (arrow 1) from truth sustaining speaker agent (arrow 2). The truth through symptoms of daily life (slips of tongue, faulty actions) and also pathological symptoms addresses itself indirectly to other (arrow 3). …