Hysterical Fabrication
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Against Understanding, Volume 1: Commentary and Critique in a Lacanian Key · Bruce Fink · p.215
<span id="page-213-0"></span>MARILYN MONROE AND [MODERN-DAY HYSTERIA](#page-8-0)
Theoretical move: The passage uses Marilyn Monroe as a clinical case study to demonstrate how hysteria manifests as compulsive fabrication that eventually supplants the hysteric's own access to truth, while also foregrounding the methodological problem of unreliable testimony in reconstructing a neurotic's history.
she tended to invent truths about her life that suited her, creating stories that sounded better than the events as they had in fact occurred.