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… Not long ago I had what may have been a first glimpse of something new. I have before me the problem of ‘choice of neurosis’. When does a person become hysterical instead of paranoic? A first crude attempt, made at a time when I was trying to storm the citadel by force, put forward the view that it depended on the age at which the sexual traumas occurred.—on the subject's age at the time of the experience. [Cf. p. 229 ff.] I gave that up long ago and was left without a clue till a few days ago, when a link with the theory of sexuality dawned on me.