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Nebst Bemerkungen Über Die Entstehung Hysterischer Symptome Durch Den ‘Gegenwillen’
(a) German Editions
1892-93 Zeitschr. Hypnot., 1 (3), 102-7, (4), 123-9. (December, 1892 and January, 1893.) 1925 G.S., 1, 258-72. 1952 G.W., 1, 3-17.
(b) English Translation:
‘A Case of Successful Treatment by Hypnotism’ 1950 C.P., 5, 33-46. (Tr. James Strachey.)
The present translation is a slightly corrected version of the one published in 1950.
This paper was almost exactly contemporaneous with the Breuer and Freud ‘Preliminary Communication’ (1893a). Some of the ideas in it (e.g. the ‘counter-will’) have a place in Freud's later work, and it forms something of a link between his writings on hypnotism and those on hysteria upon which he was embarking. The view that ‘a moment of disposition to hysteria’-in this instance, physical fatigue-provides the opportunity for the counter-will to assert itself suggests the influence of Breuer and the ‘hypnoid state’. (See p. 126.)