ABSTRACT
There are isolated disturbances of the affective area: painful irritability with crises of agonized exasperation, such as we find in cases of causalgia, where the sympathetic fibres have aroused erethism in the centres at the base of the brain, or in most of the thalamic syndromes; the states of anger which are frequent in epileptics, though they may constitute isolated syndromes such as were observed in certain cases after war traumata, and which appear to be connected, in Huntington's chorea, with an injury to the basal ganglia; and those very common states of anxiety, ‘anxiety neuroses,’ which are attributed by Freudians to a conflict of sexual tendencies.
