Hysteria (play)

Hysteria: Or Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis
Written byTerry Johnson
Date premiered1 August 1993
Place premieredRoyal Court Theatre
London
Original languageEnglish
SubjectTwo of the world's greatest and most eccentric minds collide when Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dalí meet
GenreComedy

Hysteria: Or Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis is a two-hour comedy play, by British dramatist Terry Johnson, fictionalising a real-life 1938 meeting between Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud a year before the latter's death. It is named after the Freudian psychological term "hysteria".