The major symptoms of hysteria : fifteen lectures given in the Medical School of Harvard University [between the fifteenth of October and the end of November, 1906] . ; this is the date of the appearance of the remem-brance. We must also consider in a remembrance thepast period to which it refers; I remember, to-day in1906, that I already came in Boston in 1904; it isthe period to which the remembrance refers. Torepresent these two things simultaneously, I proposeto you the following schema, which is described in mybook on Nevroses et I dees fixes, 1898, Vol. I, p. 124. The horizontal line OX
The major symptoms of hysteria : fifteen lectures given in the Medical School of Harvard University [between the fifteenth of October and the end of November, 1906] . ; this is the date of the appearance of the remem-brance. We must also consider in a remembrance thepast period to which it refers; I remember, to-day in1906, that I already came in Boston in 1904; it isthe period to which the remembrance refers. Torepresent these two things simultaneously, I proposeto you the following schema, which is described in mybook on Nevroses et I dees fixes, 1898, Vol. I, p. 124. The horizontal line OX in all these Figures 2, 3, 4, 5,from the left to the right, designates the differentperiods of the course of life in their order of is on this line that we inscribe the remembrances atthe moment of their appearance. The vertical line OY, Double Personalities 71 from the bottom to the top, represents the same periods,but as remembrance, as representation. At each pointof the horizontal line we draw a perpendicular parallelto the vertical line which represents the remembrances;its height represents the number of remembrances one Y December November. O 28 November December Fig. 2. — Schema of a case of retrograde amnesia: case of Kaempfen, possesses at such or such a moment. As this heightnaturally increases as life passes away, and one cantheoretically call up more remembrances, normalmemory will be represented by this triangle, whosebase is the horizontal line OX, and which is formed by 72 The Major Symptoms of Hysteria the diagonal drawn from the point O. If you have torepresent oblivions, amnesias, you will mark a blackspot above the point representing the date at which thisaccident took place, and the height of this black spotwill be determined by the parallel line which meets onthe vertical the forgotten remembrance. This figure,not very complicated, upon the whole, allows us to rep-resent the different amnesias in a very clear and strikingmanner. As examples
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