The work of Henrik Ibsen at its core holds similarities with psychoanalytic and feminist tendencies. The point at which these crossover represents the phenomenon of hysteria. Despite the long tradition of studying hysteria, crucial shifts in the approach are observed only with the appearance of Freud's psychoanalysis. After the appearance of Freud's method, the interest of medicine in hysteria gradually declines, but the research of the phenomenon moves to the field of literature and art. We can even say that whilst medicine often avoids its connotations in diagnostics, in literature hysterical motifs gain more meaning. With outstanding psychological portraits of his heroines, Ibsen's descriptions of hysteria achieve remarkable similarities to Dora - Freud's most famous hysteria case analysis. Hysteria has played an important role not only in psychoanalysis and exploring the unconsciousness, but also in feminist readings. Feminism uses hysteria in a borderline positive sense, implying it to be a desirable character trait of female activists fighting for women's political rights. Moreover, Ibsen's heroines symbolize the coming of a new social order and give an example of a modern women who possess traits of what used to be considered "the real man". With this, Ibsen gives an excellent example of interlinked relation between the literature and feminism. An idea of a woman's outward image being the one in a dress and radiating sexuality, whilst simultaneously her internal reality leans towards masculinity, brings us to equating womanliness with a masquerade. The psychoanalyst Joan Riviere, who bases her conclusions on real-life cases, brings this concept of equating the womanliness with a masquerade. Riviere's conclusions, similar to the Freud's about Dora, closely resemble those made by Henrik Ibsen in his dramas. The aim of this dissertation is to prove that heroines of Ibsen's dramas, as exampled by Hedda Gabler, Nora Helmer and Asta Allmers, display the majority of the traits typical for the cases of hysteria as studied in the context of medicinal, psychoanalytical and theoretical writings in literature.