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Further Suggestions as to the Technique of Psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud.
The Relation Between Anxiety Neurosis and Anxiety Hysteria. Ernest Jones.
On the Psychopathology of Anxiety. L. Seif.
Contribution to the Analysis of Sadism and Masochism. Paul Federn.
The Matron of Ephesus. An Investigation of the Meaning of the Fable of the Faithless Widow. Otto Rank.
1. Technique of Psychoanalysis.—Continued article.
2. Relation Between Anxiety Neurosis and Anxiety Hysteria.—Our advance in the knowledge of the pathology of anxiety states may be divided into three steps: (1) When, in 1895, Freud distinguished from neurasthenia a clinical picture which he called “anxiety neurosis”(2) when, in 1898, he created the concept of anxiety hysteria in order to indicate certain fears; (3) when, in 1912, Stekel showed that the same psychical factors that played the chief role in anxiety hysteria also were effective in apparently pure cases of anxiety neuroses.
The question is,—which of the two aspects, the physical or the psychical aspect, of the sexual impulses, is the more important as a reason for these neuroses. Many authors assume that the problem, is essentially physical. If one examines the situation carefully, he sees it to be essentially one of intrapsychical conflict. This conflict arouses an inborn fear instinct against repressed sexual wishes which expresses itself as pathological anxiety. There are cases of anxiety neuroses in which the removal of the physical factors (coitus inter-ruptus, etc.) results only in a partial improvement, and other cases in which such factors utterly fail. The analysis of such cases always