What has become of the hysterics of yesteryear? Despite the evolution of nosographic categories, their symptoms cannot be reduced to this, and they invite all clinicians to listen to the power of their words to express the effects of the unconscious. Disappointed lovers, worshippers of knowledge, they challenge those who would try to squeeze them into overly restrictive diagnostic boxes, to silence their truth. For they embody in their tribulations the effects of language on the being, a metonymy that they wear on their bodies. Their posture invites us to listen to the singularity of each case by highlighting the dignity of the symptom.