The Language of the Body

Freud emphasizes that the infantile experiences must have occurred before the eighth year of life for hysteria to develop

repressed memories” are infantile sexual experiences which, ineffective in themselves, can “exercise a pathogenie influence only later when they are roused after puberty in the form of unconscious memories

The hypnoid state contains the repressed memories

In the earlier paper Freud pointed out that hysteria develops on the basis of a splitting of consciousness into a hypnoid consciousness and a normal consciousness

We can agree that whatever genital excitation does occur is repressed below the level of conscious perception

We have seen that the ego swing is securely anchored at both ends of its trajectory: genital function and realistic thinking

to reality is manifested in their genital function

It is our basic postulate that the genital function expresses the reality principle, and we have attempted to show that any individual’s character attitude

Would you expect to find frigidity associated with a high energy level in the organism? Strange as it may seem such was my experience. Where

She will be unaware of these, of course, since she has no genital sensation