ABSTRACT

The psycho-analytic method has enabled us to recognize importa it analogies in the structure of hysteria and dementia præcox. 2 It will be sufficient in this paper to mention the most outstanding ones. The symptoms of both diseases originate in repressed sexual complexes. In both cases normal as well as perverse impulses can determine the formation of symptoms. The means of expression employed by both diseases are to a considerable extent the same.(I need only refer to sexual symbolism.)