INTELLIGENT WOMEN AND THE HYSTERICAL SYMPTOM

The article deals with one of the potential invariants of hysterical neurosis, which is increasingly common in the Ukrainian social context and is considered to be a certain ‘symptom' of it. The author proposes a conceptualisation of this hysterical subject structure in terms of Lacanian psychoanalysis. The paper identifies three levels of the problematic, which are consistent with the three dimensions of the psychic in Lacan's theory: Imaginary, Symbolic and Real.