Psychoanalysis : its history theory and practice / [André Tridon].

  • André Tridon
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[1919]
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Credit: Psychoanalysis : its history theory and practice / [André Tridon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    glass. She felt an Intense disgust which she repressed out of conventional respect for the governess. After giving unrestrained expression in the hypnotic state to her hatred for the governess and the dog, and to her disgust over the dog’s action, the patient felt con¬ siderably relieved. When awakened she could take a glass and drink a large quantity of water. Her visual disturbances were also traced to a painful scene in which a strong emotion was repressed: The patient, with tears in her eyes, was sitting at the bedside of her dying father. The father suddenly asked what the time was. She tried to suppress the tears which blinded her, and to conceal them, and for that purpose raised her watch very close to her eyes, so that the dial seemed very large and distorted. The resultant symp¬ toms were an abnormal enlarging of the objects she saw and severe strabism. We come finally to the paralysis of her left arm. One night, while waiting for the surgeon who was com¬ ing from Vienna to operate on her father, she fell asleep, exhausted, her arm hanging over the back of her chair. She had a dream in which she saw a black snake coming out of the wall and creeping toward the bed. She tried to frighten the snake away by a motion of her right arm. But her arm had “ gone to sleep ” and she could not move it. Looking at the fingers of her right hand she saw them transformed into little snakes. Terrified by the combination of the dream and the anaesthesia of her arm, she tried to pray but could only utter a few English sen¬ tences which turned out to be scraps of nursery rhymes. After this she continued to think and speak in English,
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