Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses

SELECTED PAPERS ON HYSTERIA AND OTHER PSYCHONEUROSES BY PROF. SIGMUND FREUD VIENNA AUTHORIZED TRANSLATION BY A. A. BRILL, PH.D., M.D. CHIEF OF NERVOUS DISPENSARY, BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL; CLINICAL ASSISTANT, DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AND NEUROLOGY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY; ASSISTANT IN MENTAL AND NERVOUS DISEASES, O. P. D., BELLEVUE HOSPITAL; ASSISTANT VISITING PHYSICIAN, HOSPITAL FOR NERVOUS DISEASES. NEW YORK THE JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE PUBLISHING COMPANY 1909 Copyright 1909, by THE JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE PUBLISHING COMPANY. CONTENTS. PAGE. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE iii CHAPTER. I. THE PSYCHIC MECHANISM OF HYSTERICAL PHENOMENA 1 II. THE CASE OF MISS LUCY R. 14 III. THE CASE OF MISS ELISABETH V. R. 31 IV. THE PSYCHOTHERAPY OF HYSTERIA 75 V. THE DEFENSE NEURO-PSYCHOSES. A Tentative Psychological Theory of Acquired Hysteria, many Phobias and Obsessions, and Certain Hallucinatory Psychoses 121 VI. ON THE RIGHT TO SEPARATE FROM NEURASTHENIA A DEFINITE SYMPTOM-COMPLEX AS “ANXIETY NEUROSIS” 133 VII. FURTHER OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEFENSE NEUROPSYCHOSES 155 VIII. ON PSYCHOTHERAPY 175 IX. MY VIEWS ON THE RÔLE OF SEXUALITY IN THE ETIOLOGY OF THE NEUROSES 186 X. HYSTERICAL FANCIES AND THEIR RELATIONS TO BISEXUALITY 194 TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE. In the first place I wish to express my gratitude to Doctors Frederick Peterson, William A. White, and Ernest Jones, for their many helpful suggestions in the translation of this wor...