Selected papers on hysteria and other psychoneurosesFreud, Sigmund
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Selected papers on hysteria and other psychoneuroses
Freud, Sigmund
Hysteria; Neuroses; Psychoanalysis
We can still choose another point of view for the understanding of the
psychoanalytic treatment. The revealing and interpreting of the
unconscious takes place under constant resistance on the part of the
patient. The emerging of the unconscious is connected with displeasure
and owing to this displeasure it is continuously repulsed by the
patient. It is upon this conflict in the patient’s psychic life that you
encroach, and if you succeed in prevailing upon him to accept something,
for motives of better insight, which he has thus far repulsed
(repressed) on account of the automatic adjustment of displeasure, you
have achieved in him a piece of educational work. For it is really an
education if you can induce a person to leave his bed early in the
morning despite his unwillingness to do so. As such an after training
for the overcoming of inner resistances you can conceive the
psychoanalytic treatment in quite a general manner. But in no sphere of
the nervous patients is such an after training so essential as in the
psychic elements of their sexual life. For nowhere have culture and
education produced as much harm as here, and it is here, as experience
will show you, that the controlling etiologies of the neuroses are
found. The other etiological element, the constitutional contribution,
is really given to us as something immutable. But this gives rise to an
important demand on the doctor. Not only must he be of unblemished
character—“morality is really a matter of course” as the principal
person in Th. Vischer’s “Auch Einer” used to say—but he must have
overcome in his own personality the mixture of lewdness and prudishness
with which so many others are wont to meet the sexual problems.
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