Resumo

FREIRE, Lilian. A histeria e a beleza: uma expressão no contexto cultural da atualidade. Psicol. cienc. prof. [online]. 2002, vol.22, n.3, pp. 70-77. ISSN 1414-9893.

What is the connection between culture and woman?, we could ask. This is the content of this report, wich suggests as a theme of discussion the hypothesis that the excessive preoccupation with the beauty and the perfection of the body is a due that leads to hysteria as a mass phenomenon, showing caricatures of feminility that deny the traditional concepts of goodness, maternity, fragility, death, purity rage, taboo. Face to these labels women back up, imposing an agressivity that has been denied to them for ages.

Palavras-chave : Beauty; Hysteria; Culture; Subjectivity.