The dissertation intends to reflect on the clinical structure of hysteria, privileging the place that the body has in the formation of hysterical neurosis. It starts from the assumption that the body has a privileged place for psychoanalysis, having been through the encounter with hysterics and their suffering inscribed in the body through hysterical attacks, conversion symptoms and paralysis, that Freud was able, contrary to medical knowledge, to create psychoanalysis. The theoretical axis developed in this work privileges the contributions of Freud and Lacan, based mainly on the concepts of sexuality, body image, identification and femininity in order to think about the status of the body for hysteria. Reflection on these elements allowed us to verify the problem of the body in the psychosexual origin of hysterical neurosis and as a place of symptom formation.