Lectures On Psychoanalysis

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The doctor soon hit upon the fact that through such cleansing of the soul more could be ac-complished than a temporary removal of the constantly recurring mental *clouds.* Symp-toms of the disease would disappear when in hypnosis the patient could be made to remem-ber the situation and the associative connec-tions under which they ?rst appeared, provided free vent was given to the emotions which they aroused. *There was in the summer a time of intense heat, and the patient had su?ered very much from thirst; for, without any apparent reason, she had suddenly become unable to drink. She would take a glass of water in her hand, but as soon as it touched her lips she would push it away as though su?ering from hydrophobia.