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Late in life Mark Twain was temporarily cured of numerous long-standing ailments by osteopathic treatment. Barrett surveys his life and writings to conclude that his character was dominated by passive and masochistic reaction-formations of strong unconscious sadistic drives. His osteopathic 'cure', with its suggestion of a derivation in such passive satisfactions, is the point of departure for these observations.