Hysteria: Or Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis | |
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Written by | Terry Johnson |
Date premiered | 1 August 1993 |
Place premiered | Royal Court Theatre London |
Original language | English |
Subject | Two of the world's greatest and most eccentric minds collide when Sigmund Freud and Salvador Dalí meet |
Genre | Comedy |
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".