The purpose of this study is to interpret the hysterical symptoms shown by students in elementary social studies classes through Lacan’s psychoanalysis. When social studies classes are conducted in elementary schools, rather than focusing on understanding the meaning of concepts or generalization knowledge, students can be seen having fun using the ‘sounds’ of concepts and generalization knowledge and saying things that are completely different from their existing meanings. You can. From Lacan’s perspective, it is considered that the unconscious, structured like metaphor and metonymy, is revealed through the students’ speech. Through this, we can see that students form an imaginary relationship with teachers or the National Curriculum for Social Studies, refuse to become ‘egos’, and experience ‘hysteria’, the process of becoming ‘subjects’ who follow the principles of the symbolic world governed by the unconscious. You can. During social studies classes, students detect cracks and contradictions in social studies education while learning generalized knowledge or concepts, and sometimes show ‘hysteria symptoms’ in resistance to the ‘master discourse’, the dominant discourse in social studies education. At this time, teachers should not regard students’ hysteria as maladjustment on the part of individual students or as a provocation against the teacher. It is suggested that social studies teachers should have an ethical attitude that encourages students to find what they desire on their own through ‘analyst discourse’ rather than having students rely on others such as teachers or curriculum.