De-historicization of “Wandering Womb”: A Study of Freudian Intervention

Hysteria, a mysterious symptom registers a lot of experiments and discourses for centuries to ultimately render erroneous arguments and a lack of scientific exuberance. The connotation of hysteria had a very gendered perspective and the entire discourse was based on the physicality of the sufferers. The intervention of Freud completely changed the discourse of hysteria. Hence, I propose to study the trajectory of hysteria from the ancient time through the Middle Ages through the 16th and 17th centuries to the Freudian intervention to signify the importance of Freud in order to create a reference point, using which the later scientists could develop the scientific technique to treat hysteria. In this paper, I would also study the modern interpretation of hysteria and the great role played by Freud in the academic understanding of hysteria.