This article focuses on the relationships between present-day hypochondria and melancholic states in the passage women to maturity. That is, in the period of the climacteric and the menopause, evidenced by the radical loss of the biological ability to procreate. It discusses women’s pathos in this stage and their need to establish a new erotic politics that springs from their body in transition, by going through the prior and subsequent oedipical stages, experienced in regression and transference in the analytic process.
Psychoanalysis; hyponchondria; melancholy; erotism; menopause