In this study I have attempted to cast some light on the difficulties met by the psychoanalyst in the cure of male anxiety hysteria. It is said that it is rarer than in women, but it is definitely more serious or at least as serious as its more severe form observed in women. Whereas infantile phobias are observed with equal frequency in boys and in girls, my personal experience leads me to believe that male anxiety hysteria stems from true phobic neurosis with severe inhibition areas manifesting themselves from childhood onwards.

As is shown by the last works of Freud, in particular 'Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety', it is of prime importance to understand what happens to the aggressivity when it is displaced on to the phobia-creating object, at both the metapsychological and the technical levels.