How many children identified as ‘attention deficit disorders’ or as ‘dyslexic’ are hysterics who eject knowledge rather than learn or who unconsciously sabotage cognitive development? The hysterical boy or girl is proclaiming an innocence of knowledge in order to assert his or her pre-sexual relation to the mother. He or she attacks cognitive development by disabling the self’s maturation, always symbolically celebrating the position of the innocent child.
Christopher Bollas – Hysteria p.19
The Sea Is Not Full 