ABSTRACT
Before concluding this Section on the rather heterogeneous group of cases which I have grouped under the general term “The Hysterias”, I would like to add another which may help to give us a glimpse into the fact that psychoneuroses in general and hysterias in particular have two important aetiological factors: firstly, a source of dynamic energy (the energy which activates the symptoms) in undischarged or inadequately discharged psychosexual tension; and secondly, a psychological nucleus in the Oedipus complex. This latter may be detected in the form of a parent-fixation.
