A Man’s Unconscious Phantasy of Pregnancy in the Guise of Traumatic Hysteria—A Clinical Contribution to Anal Erotism : 1921 : Michael Josef Eisler
by Julia Evans on September 1, 1921
Title: A Man’s Unconscious Phantasy of Pregnancy in the Guise of Traumatic Hysteria—A Clinical Contribution to Anal Erotism
Author: Michael Josef Eisler
Date: 1921
Translated: F. R. Winton
Published in International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol II, parts 3 & 4 (September to December): 1921: p255-286
Available here
Jacques Lacan refers to this case study as ‘The Tram Driver’ in Seminar III: The psychoses : 1955-1956. See below for references.
An English translation of this seminar is available here
Seminar III: 14th March 1956: Ch XII of the translation:
Title: The hysteric’s question:
Sub-headings: On the preverbal world; Preconscious and unconscious; Sign, trace, signifier; & A traumatic hysteria: p168-172:
& Seminar III: 25th April 1956: Ch XVI:
Chapter title: Secretaries to the insane:
Sub-headings: A reading; Soul murder; The implications of the signifier; The little men; The three functions of the father: p212-213
Please note:
In this English translation of Seminar III, the reference is given to the German article which was published a year after this one. It is difficult to tell which version Jacques Lacan used.
Eisler, Michael Joseph: Analyse eines Zwangssymptoms: Internationale Zeitschrift für psychoanalyse 8 (1922): p462-70
