Selected papers on hysteria and other psychoneurosesFreud, Sigmund
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Selected papers on hysteria and other psychoneuroses
Freud, Sigmund
Hysteria; Neuroses; Psychoanalysis
2. If the patient is seized with the fear that she becomes too
accustomed to her physician, that in his presence she loses her
independence and could even become sexually dependent upon him; this
case is more significant because it is less determined individually. The
occasion for this obstacle lies in the nature of the therapeutic
distress. The patient has now a new motive to resist which manifests
itself, not only in a certain reminiscence but at each attempt of the
treatment. Whenever the pressure procedure is started the patient
usually complains of headache. Her new motive for the resistance remains
to her for the most part unconscious, and she manifests it by a newly
created hysterical symptom. The headache signifies the aversion towards
being influenced.
3. If the patient fears lest the painful ideas emerging from the content
of the analysis would be transferred to the physician. This happens
frequently, and, indeed, in many analyses it is a regular occurrence.
The transference to the physician occurs through false connections.[35]
I must here give an example. The origin of a certain hysterical symptom
in one of my hysterical patients was the wish she entertained years ago
which was immediately banished into the unconscious, that the man with
whom she at that time conversed would heartily grasp her and force a
kiss on her. After the ending of a session such a wish occurred to the
patient in reference to me. She was horrified and spent a sleepless
night, and at the next session, although she did not refuse the
treatment she was totally unfit for the work. After I had discovered the
obstacle and removed it, the work continued. The wish that so frightened
the patient appeared as the next pathogenic reminiscence, that is, as
the one now required by the logical connection. It came about in the
following manner: The content of the wish at first appeared in the
patient’s consciousness without the recollection of the accessory
circumstances which would have transferred this wish into the past. By
the associative force prevailing in consciousness the existing wish
became connected with my own person, with which the patient could
naturally occupy herself, and in this mesalliance—which I call a false
connection—the same affect became reawakened which originally urged the
patient to banish this clandestine wish. As soon as I discovered this I
could presuppose every similar claim on my personality to be another
transference and false connection. It is remarkable how the patient
falls a victim to deception on every new occasion.
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