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The study puts forward an original reading of Freud’s early texts on hysteria, in the context of which it is shown how Freud’s conception of the (hysterical) body in these texts may resonate with the conception which Merleau-Ponty advances, particularly in The Phenomenology of Perception. In both cases there is a break with classical theory of the body which treats it as a mechanical substrate through...