Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 by Havelock Ellis. - HTML preview

1909.

[276] _Sammlung_, first series, p. 208.

[277] _Studien über Hysterie_, p. 217.

[278] _Sammlung_, first series, p. 162.

[279] _Sammlung_, second series, p. 102.

[280] Ib. p. 146.

[281] _Sammlung_, first series, p. 229. Freud has developed his conception

of sexual constitution in _Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie_, 1905.

[282] As Moll remarks, Freud's conceptions are still somewhat subjective,

and in need of objective demonstration; but whatever may be thought of

their theories, he adds, there can be no doubt that Breuer and Freud have

done a great service by calling attention to the important action of the

sexual life on the nervous system.

[283] Gertrude Stein, "Cultivated Motor Automatism,"

_Psychological

Review_, May, 1898.

[284] Charcot's most faithful followers refuse to recognize a "hysteric

temperament," and are quite right, if such a conception is used to destroy

the conception of hysteria as a definite disease. We cannot, however, fail

to recognize a diathesis which, while still apparently healthy, is

predisposed to hysteria. So distinguished a disciple of Charcot as Janet

thoroughly recognizes this, and argues (_L'Etat mental_, etc., p. 298)

that "we may find in the habits, the passions, the psychic automatism of

the normal man, the germ of all hysterical phenomena."

Féré held a

somewhat similar view.

[285] A.F.A. King, "Hysteria," _American Journal of Obstetrics_, May 18,