Trance-State as Hysterical Attack
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Transgender Psychoanalysis: A Lacanian Perspective on Sexual Difference · Patricia Gherovici · p.77
**FROM TRANCE TO TRANS IN LACAN'S REVISIONS OF HYSTERIA**
Theoretical move: By reading Karl Abraham's early case of a gender-variant patient through Lacanian categories, the passage argues that jouissance—not anatomy—determines sexual positioning, and that hysteria (exemplified by Dora's case) is the founding clinical site through which psychoanalysis opens the question of sexuality, identification, and the drive as irreducibly enigmatic.
Abraham equates the trance-like dream-states with hysterical attacks and follows closely Freud's analysis of hysteria. Freud noted that at times a dream could replace a hysterical attack.