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Breuer and Freud ended their relationship allegedly because Breuer objected to Freud's claim that there was a sexual etiology for the psychoneuroses. This historical commonplace is a myth and has masked an ongoing polemic in Studies on Hysteria in which Breuer objected to Freud's claim that symbolic processes unconsciously determine symptoms. The unconscious link between sexuality and intellection remains as problematic for us today as it was 100 years ago.