Hypnoid state
The hypnoid state is a theory of the origins of hysteria published jointly by Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud in their Preliminary communication [http://www.bartleby.com/280/1.html Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses] of 1893, subsequently reprinted as the first chapter of Studies on Hysteria (1895).Peter Gay, Freud (1989) p. 63
For Breuer and Freud, who characterised the hypnoid state as a state of absence of mind/consciousness produced by intense daydreams of a mournful or sexual nature, "the existence of hypnoid states forms the foundation and condition of hysteria".Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1964) p. 240
Characteristics
The hypnoid state was seen as one resembling but not identical with hypnosis.{{cite book|author1= Freud, Sigmund|author-link= Sigmund Freud|author2=Breuer, Josef|author2-link=Josef Breuer|author3=Luckhurst, Nicola | year = 2004 | title=Studies in Hysteria|url=https://archive.org/details/studiesinhysteri00sigm |url-access= registration|page= [https://archive.org/details/studiesinhysteri00sigm/page/217 217]| location = London; New York City | publisher = Penguin Modern Classics (via Google Books) | isbn = 978-0-14-243749-0 | accessdate= December 7, 2011}} In the hypnoid state, one may have dream-like experiences. One enters the hypnoid state by either hypnosis or by voluntary amnesia.
Breuer credited Paul Julius Möbius as a forerunner in the development of the idea.J. Laplanche/J.-B. Pontalis, The Language of Psychoanalysis (2012) p. 193
Repudiation
Freud was shortly to repudiate the causative notion of hypnoid states, in favour of his theory of psychological repression.Jones, p. 240 As he would put it later, "Breuer's theory of 'hypnoid states' turned out to be impeding and unnecessary, and it has been dropped by psycho-analysis today...the screen of hypnoid states erected by Breuer".S. Freud, Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1995) p. 22-3
Nevertheless he continued to recognise the importance of such states of absent consciousness in the symptomatology of the hysterical subject.S. Freud, On Psychopathology (PFL 10) p. 101
See also
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External links
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