You do not currently have permission to view the full text for this document. Please sign in to an account with an active subscription or contact support.
[Editor's Note: According to Michael Schröter, the fragment mentioned in the preceding letter is Draft I, which contains many ideas similar to those in Fliess's Beziehungen zwischen Nase und weiblichen Geschlechtsorganen. He has therefore proposed that Draft I be placed in this location.]
A matter of summation. There is an interval of hours or days between the instigation and the outbreak of the symptoms. One has a sort of feeling that an obstacle is overcome and that a process then goes forward.
A matter of summation. Even without an instigation one has an impression that there must be an accumulating stimulus which is present in the smallest quantity at the beginning of the interval and in the largest quantity toward its end.
A matter of summation, in which susceptibility to etiological factors lies in the height of the level of the stimulus already present.
A matter with a complicated etiology. Perhaps on the pattern of a chain etiology, where a proximate cause can be produced by a number of factors directly and indirectly, or on the pattern of a surrogate etiology,1 where, alongside a specific cause, commonplace causes can act as quantitative substitutes.
A matter on the model of menstrual migraine and belonging to the sexual group. Evidence:
Rarest in healthy males.
Restricted to the sexual time of life: childhood and old age almost excluded.
If it is produced by summation, the sexual stimulus too is something produced by summation.