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This is the Italian translation of an article which appeared in The Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, XCVI, September, 1942, and in Schewizer Archiv für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, L, No. 1, 1942. It presents a thorough discussion of the healing factor in electric shock treatment, with polemics against other scientists. Flescher, who adheres strictly to the dualistic life and death instincts theory of Freud, sees in the discharge of the original aggression (produced through muscular convulsions experienced during the seizure) an over-powering of the ego by the libido. A rich bibliography accompanies the article.