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In this short article the author seeks to bring mystical ecstasy into line with hysterical dream-states, and considers that the ecstasy corresponds
to the four stages of the dream-states as given by Dr. Abraham in his article on Dream-states. The writer says that in mystics as well as in hysterics there is a primary auto-erotic or narcissistic activity, a secondary repression, and a final return of the repressed material in the sublimated or spiritualised form of a religious experience or a mystic ecstasy.