Lectures On Psychoanalysis

The doctor soon hit upon the fact that through such cleansing of the soul more
could be ac-complished than a temporary removal of the constantly recurring
mental "clouds." Symp-toms of the disease would disappear when in hypnosis the
patient could be made to remem-ber the situation and the associative connec-tions
under which they first appeared, provided free vent was given to the emotions
which they aroused. "There was in the summer a time of intense heat, and the
patient had suffered very much from thirst; for, without any apparent reason, she
had suddenly become unable to drink. She would take a glass of water in her hand,
but as soon as it touched her lips she would push it away as though suffering from
hydrophobia.