The 4th Notebook of the psychoanalytic series "Rous" by Agra Publications contains texts by Pierre Fédida, Pierre Marty, and Piera Aulagnier. The series is dedicated to the inseparable relationships between mind and body and the dual instinctual nature of humanity.

This notebook addresses the enigma of hypochondria, exploring whether it is a disease, anxiety, or a psychological symptom. In the first article, Marilia Eisenstein-Averoff and Alain Gibeault provide a metapsychological study of the hypochondriacal phenomenon, moving away from the typical image of disease and symptom.

In the second article, Marilia Eisenstein-Averoff delves into the concept of mental hypochondriacal resolution. This takes place between a wounded soul and a body under continuous psychological observation. George Stathopoulos approaches hypochondria as a neoformative object, in the ongoing efforts of the soul to incorporate a body that eludes it.

Thus, hypochondria operates as a metaphor for psychoanalytic hearing and as a process of psychic enrichment. Michel Fain analyzes the dichotomy of hypochondria and the possible creation of pockets of enclosed autoerotism, related to childhood psychological traumas and rigid defenses.

Hypochondria manifests when the normal silence of the body is disrupted by misinterpreted sensations that bring disastrous warnings, forming as a narcissistic object, with anxieties of self-destruction and environmental annihilation.