On the contrary, these experiences, are either completely lacking from the memory of the patients in their usual psychic state, or at most exist in greatly abridged form. Only after the patients are questioned in the hypnotic state do these memories appear with the undiminished vividness of fresh occurrences.

This is the case when a trauma, in itself effectual, occurs in a state of a severely paralyzing affect, or from a transformed consciousness. But it may also happen that the psychic trauma evokes in many persons one of these abnormal states, which in turn makes the reaction impossible.

but by the psychic states with which the corresponding experiences in the patient have united.

herein it seems to surpass the efficacy of direct suggestion, as practised at present by psychotherapists.

It abrogates the efficacy of the original non-abreacted ideas by affording an outlet to their strangulated affects through speech. It brings them to associative correction by drawing them into normal consciousness (in mild hypnosis) or by eliminating them through medical suggestion in the same way as in somnambulism with amnesia.

A normal person is in this way capable of dissipating the accompanying affect by means of association.

On the contrary, we must maintain that the psychic trauma or the memory of the same acts like a foreign body which even long after its penetration must be considered as an agent of the present, the proof of which we see in a most remarkable phenomenon, which at the same time adds to our discoveries a distinctly practical interest.

It is quite evident that in "traumatic" hysteria it is the accident which evokes the syndrome.

Every experience which produces the painful affect of fear, anxiety, shame, or of psychic pain may act as a trauma.