“Dead end…”, “there’s no chance”, “it’s impossible to change anything”, “no prospects…”. I think everyone has said these words to themselves at least once. But they are not just words. This testimony of inner feelings of deep doom and emptiness can be designated by one word – “hysteria”.
First, hysteria is always a priority of power. A person, being in hysteria, loses awareness and criticality, which allows using it for a wide variety of purposes.
Thus, the most common use of hysteria is in public opinion, in which conforming to stereotypes, conforming to others’ ideas and satisfying others’ needs takes on a purely personal significance and brings unhealthy satisfaction.
What is also important is the undeniable fact that hysteria is a crucial stage in the child’s age development. This stage, which lasts from 1 to 2.5-3 years of age, owes to the formation of the ability to control oneself, to make one’s needs consistent with one’s abilities, and to satisfy them.
And, importantly, to become a creative individual.
The most pernicious is hysteria – as a parenting strategy. This strategy of parental authority forms a system of manipulation of the child’s own “I want”.
Then, this “I want”, acquiring the form of total demand and exploitation of the other, becomes the basis for adult life.
Consequently, a child brought up in hysterical power is a doomed adult.
After all, hysteria is the most complex psychic affect that cannot be solved alone. It is the passion whose unbridled ness kindles wars and destroys the other without any doubt or remorse. In this affect, one loses all consciousness and becomes a clot of reactions, emotions, chaotic movements, futile cries, shouts and meaningless messages.
In hysteria, man becomes a system of uncontrollable sensual desires and bodily demands that consume him, eradicating all that can be labelled as human.
An adult under the power of his hysteria will never experience the joy of his own life, the pleasure of his own body and the possibility of being free.
After all, hysteria is the complete unconscious desire to escape from oneself.
The most severe hysteria is conversion hysteria. This hysteria is the one that leads the human body into a total spasm, the way out of which is an endless search for a disease that does not exist on a physiological level. Hysterical conversion symptoms lead the individual into the residence of phantom pains, spasms, and “ghost diseases”, which exhaust him and engulf him in total fear.
What is frightening is not the presence of the conversion symptoms, but rather their absence on a physiological level, and as a result, the dire expectation that “somewhere out there” they still exist.
This expectation is debilitating and panic-inducing and often almost destroys the joy of life and the desire to live it in the present…
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