Prôton Pseudos
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#01
Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.89
**SIMULATION, EXPRESSION, AND TRUTH**
Theoretical move: The passage argues that Lacan's "discourse of the hysteric" represents a structural expansion of hysteria beyond clinical neurosis into a universal condition of the speaking being, one rooted in Hegelian dialectics, the alienating effect of language, and ultimately the hysterical *prôton pseudos* — thereby linking Lacan's formalization of discourse back to his earliest Babinskian formation while opening onto questions of gender, transgender experience, and the unconscious as "une-bévue."
Such an error can be traced back to Freud's notion of hysteria as founded upon the hysterical prôton pseudos, a term which means both logical error and lie.
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#02
Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.90
**SIMULATION, EXPRESSION, AND TRUTH**
Theoretical move: By reading Freud's *prôton pseudos* as "fallacy" rather than "lie," Gherovici argues that hysteria's founding logic is one of constitutive undecidability between error, deception, and creativity—and leverages this to propose that the analyst must listen to trans patients the way Freud listened to hysterics: allowing unconscious errancy to disclose subjective truth rather than reducing subjects to objects of classification.
This defines the hysteric's prôton pseudos... Pseudos means 'lie' and 'logical error,' and 'fallacy' would be more accurate: it retains the undecidability of the original.