Hysteria: Or Fragments of an Analysis of an Obsessional Neurosis is a two-hour play by Terry Johnson

Terry Johnson (dramatist)

Terry Johnson is a British dramatist and director working for stage, television and film. He is a Literary Associate at the Royal Court Theatre. At The Court he directed Dumb Show by Joe Penhall and opened his play Piano/Forte...

 fictionalising a 1938 meeting between Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....

 and Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...

 a year before the latter's death. It is named after the Freudian psychological term "hysteria

Female hysteria

Female hysteria was a once-common medical diagnosis, made exclusively in women, which is today no longer recognized by modern medical authorities as a medical disorder. Its diagnosis and treatment were routine for many hundreds of years in Western Europe. Hysteria was widely discussed in the...

" and its London premiere was in 1 August 1993. In a 2007 production at the Birmingham Rep, Sean Foley

Sean Foley (comedian)

Sean Foley is a British comedian and actor. With Hamish McColl, he forms the double-act The Right Size.-Theatre:*Freud in Hysteria *Matti in Mr Puntila and His Man Matti...

 appeared as Freud, Sam Swainsbury as Dali, Ruth Miller

Ruth Miller

Ruth Blanchard Miller was an American artist.Miller was born to Kempster Blanchard Miller and Antha Miller in Chicago, Illinois...

 as Jessica, and John Burgess

John Burgess

For other persons named John Burgess, see John Burgess .John William Burgess was a pioneering American political scientist...

as Abraham.