Through the clinic of alcoholism by men, we will investigate the question of male hysteria. If hysteria was a lot studied about women, only few works tell what it would be about men. Hysteria explores the enigmatic question of the feminine. But when the feminine is, for women, a topic of "being", it is for men, according to Freud's words, a "dark continent". We don't face, as "male" or "female", castration in the same way and the oedipean movements embark on differently. Alcoholic patients are most of the time considered as borderline; it is here the hypothesis of male hysteria that will be defended with neurosis being therefore addressed in its wide-span-covered seriousness. This proposal will be upheld on the feminine side consideration - in its opposition to the phallic and not to the male side, and consequently present in both sexes. Moreover allowing a re-reading of the issue of loss, very active in addictive problems, in a paradigm shift, with narcissism being upstaged.