Freud : his dream and sex theories / by Joseph Jastrow.

  • Joseph Jastrow
Date:
1948,
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    to several types of neurosis, that constitutes the Freud¬ ian formulation of the discovery” of Breuer.* Prompt¬ ing the memories under hypnosis brought forth the story of a governess in her childhood whom she dis¬ liked and of her disgust when this governess permitted her pet dog to drink from a family glass. After relating this incident, Anna woke from hypnosis with the glass at her lips and had no further difficulty in drinking. That symptom was abreacted, dispelled by catharsis. Thus was discovered” or conjectured the childhood situational origin of symptoms appearing in mature life. This remote connection, supplying the psychological missing-link, was destined to play a commanding part in psychoanalysis. It led Freud to the thesis that hys- tericals suffer from their reminiscences”; their sub¬ conscious cannot forget. A different interpretation is favored by Jung, psy¬ choanalyst of another school: that the same hysterical liability which made the child Anna react so violently to the “disgust” incident, was reinstated under the gen¬ eral emotional upset of her present situation. She is re¬ viving older impairments. To Freud this is regression; Anna’s psyche is regressing to an infantile stage. To Jung this means partly that, and mainly that she is again in a susceptible, vulnerable state of mind; her neurotic susceptibility appeared in childhood and re¬ appeared in later stresses. * It is well to explain that in the interests of focusing: upon the essentials of the psychoanalytical discovery, I have simplified this “case,” and follow the account of it given by Freud at the maturer stage of his interpretation, in the American lectures (1909); in which, however, he cites in part from the earlier joint report by Breuer and himself (1893-95) of the original “case” observed a dozen years earlier (1880-82). It should be noted also that this patient displayed the typical hysterical states of “absence, amounting to an altered personality. This, as observed in hysterical cases, may vary from light trance bo disorientation, to stupor.
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