eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Applied Psychology 2327-6150 2014-10-27 2 5A 21 24 10.12691/ajap-2-5A-6 AJAP201425A6 article Claudia Livingston Ades clauades@uol.com.br 1 Psychoanalysis Department of Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil The aim of this article is to study female hysteria, through the eyes of freudian psychoanalytical theory and Piera Aulagnier´s contributions. A clinical case study, whose subject has presented female hysteria characteristics, will be presented and, through a theoretical-clinic articulation, it will be possible to compare how this neurosis used to present itself in the past, and how it does today. http://pubs.sciepub.com/ajap/2/5A/6/ajap-2-5A-6.pdf hysteria femininity identification process