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ferenczi: Tics.—Ferenczi here deals with purely psychogenic tics. Tics due to other causes are recognized. The literature, he says, is still scanty. He refers to earlier work of his own in which the tic seemed to represent a stereotyped expression of an onanistic equivalent. Freud has previously spoken of somatic (organic) factors in tics and Ferenczi believes in close analysis of his case that such a view was correct. Stereotyped motions are frequent in many psychoneurotics, but seem to be minor situations. He has never had a case come to him directly for the cure of a tic. In most transference neuroses, he states, nearly all of the symptoms may be shown to be woven into a uniform pattern, but the many stereotyped accompaniments seem to have an independent structure. Hence the idea of the organic component. He then encountered a persistent onanist who had a number of stereotyped movements, such as smoothing his coat to his figure, stroking his smooth shaven skin, persistently gazing at his shiny polished shoes, use of carefully balanced phrases to which he himself was always listening. He was a narcissist, impotent with women, and fled from analysis at the first difficulties. He then began to watch tiquers, and found them everywhere. The forms were multitudinous, and Ferenczi notes a lot of them. This led him to a consideration of narcissistic disease wherein organ libido fixation occurs as (1) dang