Hysteria requires repressive disciplinary society, distinguishing it from depression.
Evidence
Hysteria is a typical psychic malady of the disciplinary society that witnessed the founding of psychoanalysis. It presumes the negativity of repression, prohibition, and negation, which lead to the formation of the unconscious. Drive-representations [Triebrepräsentanzen] that have been pushed off into the unconscious manifest themselves, by means of “conversion,” as bodily symptoms that mark a person unambiguously. Hysterics exhibit a characteristic morphe. Therefore, hysteria admits morphology; this fact distinguishes it from depression. — Byung-Chul Han, The Burnout Society, 106
Categorization
- XREF: Sets up Han’s later argument that depression, unlike hysteria, is the sickness of the achievement-society — morphology distinguished from the depression’s lack of form.