hysteria
See also: hystéria
English
Etymology
From New Latin hysteria, from hysteric, from Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”). Compare French hystérie.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /hɨˈstɛɹijə/, /hɨˈstɪɹijə/
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Noun
hysteria (usually uncountable, plural hysterias or hysteriæ)
- Behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion, such as fear or panic.
- (medicine) A mental disorder characterized by emotional excitability etc. without an organic cause.
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- The typical cases of hysteria cited by Freud thus involved a
moral conflict—a conflict about what the young women in
question wanted to do with themselves. Did they want to
prove that they were good daughters by taking care of their
sick fathers? Or did they want to become independent of their
parents, by having a family of their own, or in some other
way? I believe it was the tension between these conflicting
aspirations that was the crucial issue in these cases. The sexual
problem—say, of the daughter's incestuous cravings for her
father—was secondary (if that important); it was stimulated,
perhaps, by the interpersonal situation in which the one had to
attend to the other's body. Moreover, it was probably easier to
admit the sexual problem to consciousness and to worry about
it than to raise the ethical problem indicated.3 In the final
analysis, the latter is a vastly difficult problem in living. It
cannot be "solved" by any particular maneuver but requires
rather decision making about basic goals, and, having made
the decisions, dedicated efforts to attain them.
- The typical cases of hysteria cited by Freud thus involved a
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- (informal, pathology) Synonym of conversion disorder
- (obsolete, pathology, until early 20th century) Any disorder of women with some psychiatric symptoms without other diagnosis, ascribed to uterine influences on the female body, lack of pregnancy, or lack of sex.
Synonyms
- (mental disorder): female hysteria
- (obsolete female disorder): uterine melancholy
Derived terms
Derived terms
- anxiety hysteria
- conversion hysteria
- ecohysteria
Related terms
Translations
behavior exhibiting excessive or uncontrollable emotion
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medical disorder
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Further reading
Finnish
Declension
Inflection of hysteria (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | hysteria | hysteriat | |
genitive | hysterian | hysterioiden hysterioitten | |
partitive | hysteriaa | hysterioita | |
illative | hysteriaan | hysterioihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | hysteria | hysteriat | |
accusative | nom. | hysteria | hysteriat |
gen. | hysterian | ||
genitive | hysterian | hysterioiden hysterioitten hysteriainrare | |
partitive | hysteriaa | hysterioita | |
inessive | hysteriassa | hysterioissa | |
elative | hysteriasta | hysterioista | |
illative | hysteriaan | hysterioihin | |
adessive | hysterialla | hysterioilla | |
ablative | hysterialta | hysterioilta | |
allative | hysterialle | hysterioille | |
essive | hysteriana | hysterioina | |
translative | hysteriaksi | hysterioiksi | |
instructive | — | hysterioin | |
abessive | hysteriatta | hysterioitta | |
comitative | — | hysterioineen |
Compounds
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