以下摘录于 p17，Studies on Hysteria (by Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud)，The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud.
It will now be understood how it is that the psychotherapeutic procedure which we have described in these pages has a curative effect. It brings to an end the operative force of the idea which was not abreacted in the first instance, by allowing its strangulated affect to find a way out through speech; and it subjects it to associative correction by introducing it into normal consciousness (under light hypnosis) or by removing it through the physician's suggestion, as is done in somnambulism accompanied by amnesia.
