The article discusses femininity in the contemporary world from the point of view of Freud's Studies on Histeria. The definition of the psychoanalytic clinical practice itself is referred to the modes of defense against the feminine position and the radical difference it imparts. The latter here is associated to castration. Using the presentation of a clinical "note", it approaches femininity in face of both inscription and sexual relations and highlights the symbolic function of the mother. The feminine position in transmission is treated through nomination. The clinical research on histeria indicates that the feminine position under symbolic castration reveals the conditions for the utterance of the name and for the production of difference.
histeria; femininity; castration