Published
P259-261 of The complete letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904. (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Editor and Translator). (1985c). Cambridge, MA, and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press :
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Further information
Preface, Note on Method & Introduction to ‘The complete letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, 1887-1904’ : 1985 : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson. See this site /5 Authors A-Z (Masson or Index of Authors’ texts)
Citation
One of three mentions by Sigmund Freud of his hysteria
From Introduction to Female Sexuality – The early psychoanalytic controversies : 1999 : Russell Grigg, Dominique Hecq & Craig Smith, see this site /5 Authors A-Z (Grigg or Index of Authors’ texts)
P16 of Grigg, Hecq & Smith, Apart from the question of femininity, there remains one riddle though. What was it that caused Freud’s blindness in the area of femininity, and more particularly his delay in recognizing the crucial mother-daughter dyad? Was this inadequacy dictated by Freud’s own masculinity and status as father, as, ultimately, he and others suggest, or by the phallocentric and patricentric nature of psychoanalysis as he conceived it,[30] by his self-diagnosed hysteria,[31] by his hysterical phobia as diagnosed by Didier Anzieu?.[32]
Footnote 31. See letters to Fliess of 14.9.1897, 30.9.1897 and 3.10.1897, in Letters to Fliess, 26l, 270 and 325.
NOTE This footnote is not correct.
Sigmund Freud notes his hysteria in three places :
-14.09.1897 is not the date of a letter. p261 of Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s translation is 14th August 1897 Letter 67 (This text),
Quotation
P261 of Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s translation, After having become very cheerful here, I am now enjoying a period of bad humour. The chief patient I am preoccupied with is myself . My little hysteria, though greatly accentuated by my work, has resolved itself a bit further. The rest is still at a standstill. That is what my mood primarily depends on. The analysis is more difficult than any other. It is, in fact, what paralyzes my psychic strength for describing and communicating what I have won so far. Still, I believe it must be done and is a necessary intermediate stage in my work.
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-30.9.1897 is p269 of Masson’s translation, 4th October 1897 Letter 70 (See this site /3 Sigmund Freud (18971004 or Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts))
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-3.10.1897 is p325 ( Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson’s translation) is the 31st August 1898 Letter 95. (See this site /3 Sigmund Freud (18980831 or Index of Sigmund Freud’s texts)