Abstract
This work explores Freud's archaeology as a departure from Charcot's iconography of hysteria. It begins with a comparison between two grotesque figures that appear in the men's work, which reveal in their analyses a characteristic approach to the hysterical symptom (Charcot) and the neurotic compulsion (Freud). The article then proceeds to detail Charcot's dependence upon historical iconography to shore up his construction of grand hysteria, and how Freud, though at first in agreement, gradually came to distance himself from it. Then Freud's 1922 study of a demonic possession is explored as Freud's final "deferred disobedience" from Charcot on the matter of "retrospective medicine."
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