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A concept developed by Braunschweig and Fain in 1975, primary hysteria puts forward a theoretical model of the emergence of psychic life that draws on the necessary involvement of both the object and the object's object in a dynamic based on the libidinal dimension of their bond around the linchpin of the censorship of the mother-as-lover. The primary hysterical core that is constituted there sexualizes the excitation around the oedipal structure while restricting its drive dimensions, the emergence of representations and the dynamics and organization of topographical differentiations. Primary hysteria thus builds the foundations of a hysterical structuring of human sexuality that accords with a hysterical organization of mental functioning.