What is decreed must be, and be this so!"
Schopenhauer, "Ueber die anscheinende Absichtlichkeit im Schicksale des Einzelnen. Parerga und Paralipomena."
[158] This was seen in the Amsterdam Congress of 1907, where a prominent French savant assured us that the Freudian theory was but "une plaisanterie." This gentleman has demonstrably neither read Freud's latest works nor mine, he knows less about the subject than a little child. This opinion, so admirably grounded, ended with the applause of a well-known German professor. One can but bow before such thoroughness. At the same Congress another well-known German neurologist immortalised his name with the following intellectual reasoning: "If hysteria on Freud's conception does indeed rest on repressed affects, then the whole German army must be hysterical."
[159] Cf. Freud, "Zeitschrift für Religionspsychologie," 1907.
[160] Journal of Abnormal Psychology, vol. III., p. 219, 1908.
[161] "Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse," 1911, vol. I., p. 81.
[162] Author's italics.
[163] This also holds good for any objects that are repeated.
[164] See "The Association Method," Lecture III.
[165] "Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse," 1911, p. 567. Translator, Dr. M. D. Eder.