in the years 1880-2. Cf. the lectures delivered by me in America (*Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis*) and 'On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement'. (15, 83)

of this treatment that patients, instead of bringing forward their symptoms, brought forward dreams. A suspicion thus arose that the dreams too had a sense.
We will not, however, follow this historical path, but will proceed in the opposite direction.
¹ By Joseph Breuer {cont}

give you one. Instead, I will introduce you by degrees to fields of knowledge from which the explanation will force itself upon you without any contribution of mine. (15, 79)

none the less set down these same phenomena as being in general chance events without sense or meaning, and that they can oppose the psycho-analytic elucidation of them with so much vigour?
You are right. This is a remarkable fact and it calls for an explanation. But I will not {cont}

being very common phenomena which, moreover, can easily be observed in oneself, and which can occur without the slightest implication of illness. (15, 79)

new ones. (15, 79)

of your own. (15, 78-79)

into dangerous enemies of your household belongings. And you may also raise the question whether it is always a matter of chance when people injure themselves and risk their own safety. These are notions whose value you may care to test, if occasion arises, by analysing observations {cont}

by the way, that when we were discussing the affair some time later by friend F. had no recollection whatever of my remark, which I recalled with certainty.'
This may lead you to suspect that it is not always just an innocent chance that turns the hands of your domestic servants {cont}

of the accumulator to come suddenly on to the press, a strain for which the connecting pipes are not designed, so that one of them immediately burst—quite a harmless accident to the machine, but enough to oblige us to suspect work for the day and go home.
'It is characteristic, {cont}

stood by the manometer and when the right pressure was reached called out a loud "Stop!" At the word of command F. seized the valve and turned it with all his might—to the left! (All valves without exception are closed by being turned to the right." This caused the full pressure {cont}

the work it happened that F. was given the regulation of the valve of the press; that is to say, he was, by cautiously opening the valve, to let the fluid under pressure flow slowly out of the accumulator into the cylinder of the hydraulic press. The man conducting the experiment {cont}

so much time on that particular day as he had so much else to do at home. I could not help agreeing with him and added half jokingly, referring to an incident the week before: "Let us hope that the machine will go wrong again so that we can stop work and go home early."
'In arranging {cont}

on a series of complicated experiments in elasticity, a piece of work which we had undertaken voluntarily but which was beginning to take up more time than we had expected. One day as I returned to laboratory with my friend F., he remarked how annoying it was to him to lose {cont}

for the wrong number 'by mistake' or 'while he was thinking of something else' and suddenly found himself connected to the girl's number. (15, 77-78)

and he may then overlook or miss some connection so that he is after all obliged to break his journey in the way he wished. Or what happened to one of my patients: I had forbidden him to telephone to the girl he was in love with, and then, when he meant to telephone me, he asked {cont}

near the town where he lives, and then, at a junction where he has to change, may by mistake get into a train that takes him back to where he came from. Or someone on a journey may be anxious to make a stop at an intermediate station but may be forbidden from doing so by other obligations, {cont}

in this way; and thus our losing is often a voluntary sacrifice. In the same way, losing may also serve the purpose of defiance or self-punishment. In short, the more remote reasons for the intention to get rid of a thing by losing it are beyond number. (15, 77)