ABSTRACT
It would seem at first glance that the compulsion neurosis offers a more fruitful field for psychoanalytic study than does hysteria, for since its symptoms and peculiarities are entirely within the mental realm, a purely psychological method should easily elucidate their origin and nature; moreover, conversion, this obscure phenomenon which leads us into undesirable complexities of a somatic order in the case of hysteria, is not a part of the compulsion neurosis.
