[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,