TWENTY-SEVENTH LECTURE GENERAL THEORY OF THE NEUROSES
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Freud, Sigmund and Hall, G. Stanley (Granville Stanley)
On the basis of our clinical impressions of these patients, we asserted that in their case libidinous occupation with objects must have been abandoned, and object-libido must have been transformed into ego-libido. On the strength of this characteristic we had separated it from the first group of neurotics (hysteria, anxiety and compulsion neuroses). Their behavior under attempts at therapy confirms this supposition. They show no neurosis. They, therefore, are inaccessible to our efforts and we cannot cure them.