ABSTRACT
Transitory obsessional phenomena may occur in the treatment. There is something similar to an obsession in every association, however senseless, that is a conscious substitute for an intelligent but repressed idea. Transitory states of weakness in the whole musculature or in certain groups of muscles are sometimes to be explained as symptoms of moral weakness or as a not wanting to carry out some action. It is very common indeed for patients to express a suddenly appearing mental suffering by transitory cardiac pains, the feeling of bitterness by a bitter feeling in the tongue, and care by a sudden sense of pressure on the head. Besides the didactic value for physicians and patients, the "transitory symptom-formations" possess a certain practical and theoretical significance. With male neurotics who feel themselves unkindly treated by the physician homosexual obsessions may appear, which often refer to the person of the latter.
