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A Reexamination of Freud's Basic Concepts from Studies of Multiple Personality Disorder A REEXAMINATION OF FREUD'S BASIC CONCEPTS FROM STUDIES OF MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER Eugene L. Bliss, M.D. Eugene L. Bliss, M.D., is Professor Emeritus, University of entering "hypnoid " or "self-hypnotic" states. Utah School of Medicine. She would enter altered states of consciousness sponta- neously, and in these "hypnoid" states a remarkable shift For reprints write to E.L. Bliss,M.D., Dept. of Psychiatry, would occur. In her normal alert state she would have no University of Utah Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT inkling of why a symptom was present, but when she con- 84132. verted to self-hypnosis she would recognize why and how the symptom had been generated. When the forgotten ABSTRACT episode was revealed and the feelings attending it were expressed, the symptom would disappear. Freud derived his fundamental concepts, which became the basis for Furthermore, Breuer asserted that the basis of hysteria his metapsycholo, primarily from his early experiences with hys- was the existence of these hypnoid states that had the power teria. These basic concepts included the unconscious, repression, to create an amnesia. In turn, the amnesia created an un- resistance, the Oedipus complex and psychosexual development. conscious so that the individual then had three, rather than Later speculations were predicated upon these postulates. It is the normal two states of mind. The hysteric had the normal contended that these concepts were faulted by both his failure to waking and sleeping states, but in addition had a hypnoid accept Breuer 's observations on self-hypnotic (hypnoid) states and state. by his creation ofa fantasy theory of sexual molestation. The next element in this tale was introduced in Novem- ber, 1882, when Breuer told his young friend, Sigmund Despite Freuds eminence and his influence upon West- Freud, the details of this unusual case. It made a deep ern thought, his theories remain controversial. Over the impression upon Freud, and the two discussed the case on course of his long and productive life he wrote many books many occasions. and papers, but his fundamental concepts were developed There next followed perhaps the most remarkable twist early in his career, primarily from his experiences with to this tale. Freud rejected Breuers concept of self-hypno- patients suffering hysteria. These concepts became the sis. In both the monograph on hysteria (Breuer Freud, foundation of and remained the key elements in his 1895/1957) and in his autobiography (Freud, 1948), Freud metapsychology. summed up the issue rather cryptically. In essence, he The origin of dynamic psychiatry has a lengthy history contended that he had never encountered a "self hypnotic" (Ellenberger, 1970; Bliss, 1986), but for the sake of brevity hysteria-only "defense" neuroses. Breuer had offered him we will begin in 1889 when Pierre Janet in Paris published a potent concept, that of self-hypnosis, but for reasons still a remarkable volume on psychological automatisms (1889) not fully explicable Freud had disclaimed it and instead in which he expounded the novel thesis that hysterical postulated "repression." symptoms were due to noxious childhood experiences But why is spontaneous self-hypnosis such a powerful which had been isolated and forgotten. Furthermore, he concept? If one accepts the concept, it then explains the observed that the dissociation of these experiences from amnesias, an unconscious, and resistances. Furthermore, it the mainstream of consciousness produced a variety of leads to the question of the phenomena of hypnosis. By the symptoms. The cause of this dissociation or split for Janet end of the 19th century these were known. Bramwell sum- was a congenital weakness of psychological synthesis that marized these hypnotic capabilities in his 1903 textbook on allowed this fragmentation of the mind to occur. hypnosis. He noted subjects in deep hypnosis were able to Virtually simultaneously but independently in Vienna, demonstrate catalepsy, paralysis and flaccidity of muscles; from 1880 to 1882 Josef Breuer was treating "Anna O.," the to affect all sensations-vision, audition, smell, taste, touch, most famous case in the annals of psychoanalysis (Breuer pressure, temperature and pain-and to make them more Freud, 1895/1957). "Anna O." was a severe hysteric who acute, to diminish or arrest them; to produce anesthesia, suffered a galaxy of conversion symptoms-probably an analgesia or amnesia; or to induce delusions, hallucinations undetected multiple personality. Breuer was making iden- and illusions. I would summarize this by concluding that tical observations to those of Janet, but he also identified deep hypnosis can manipulate all functions of the neo- another crucial feature of the hysterical state undetected by cortex with a sense ofrealism because deep hypnosis creates Janet. Breuer recognized that "Anna O." spontaneously was an inner world that is perceived as real as the real world- 36 DISSOCIATION, Vol.1, No. 3: September 1955 a domain of subjectively realistic fantasy and subjectively re- later neuroses (Freud, 1896a/1949, 1896b/1949, 1905/ alistic memory (Bliss, 1986). 1949). These memories had been "repressed," but later But the traumas concealed by the amnesia of hypnosis were revealed in therapy. I would suggest instead that they can produce phobias, irrational behaviors, depressions, de- had been self-hypnotically concealed. But there then came lusions, hallucinations, mood swings, conversion symptoms an embarrassing insight. Freud reversed himself and be- and much else. The creation of personalities is only one of came convinced that what his patients reported were not its myriad capabilities (Bliss, 1986). real experiences but were fantasies (Freud, 1905/1949, It can be shown that almost any symptom and almost any 1954). This was startling, because logically it led to the syndrome known to psychiatry can he simulated by this assumption that young children must have heterosexual spontaneous self-hypnotic process. If Freud had explored fantasies. What was his evidence for the reversal of this this self-hypnotic process, it might have led him in a quite opinion? He asked whether perverted acts against children different direction and his findings might have dictated a could be so common, but that seemed "hardly credible." At different conceptual system. the time this was certainly a powerful objection, but it could Breuer had observed these self-hypnotic states in "Anna only have been settled by a careful inquiry directed at the 0." and had given the concept to Freud, but Freud had other persons who were involved. Freud was in no position repudiated it. One can only speculate about the reasons for to pursue such investigations, and logically this assumption this oversight. Freud was admittedly uncomfortable with should have remained moot. There was next his legitimate hypnosis, although he did use it for several years. Another consideration that in the unconscious there is no criterion factor was his legitimate concern with the defensive compo- of reality, so that truth cannot be distinguished from an nent of the hysterical process; his preoccupation with this emotional fiction. 1 would revise this somewhat, but my idea of defense may have closed his mind to other consid- conclusion would be identical. In the state of spontaneous erations. This concept was valid, but unfortunately it was deep hypnosis, within the unconscious domain that it cre- only one important element in the process. I contend that ates, fantasies can become perceived as facts, so that when the more powerful concept was the self-hypnosis, which the individual exits this state, not realizing where he has contrived the defense. been, the experience can be perceived as very real, and can The major reason for the repudiation of Breuers obser- be believed. vation could have been what I would consider bad luck. He finally cited the fact that such memories never emerge Freud may have had the ill fortune not to have patients like in the deliria of even the most severe psychoses. This may "Anna O. " early in his career. I speculate that once he came not be a valid observation. In hysterical psychoses elements to his final conclusions and rejected "self-hypnosis," his of such experiences may be found, but again even in these mind then probably closed to this possibility. Whatever the disturbed states a total emergence is often defended. reasons, he was deprived of the concept. By the end of the This repudiation of real infantile sexual traumas by 19th century, there was an abundance of information about Freud proved to be a second turning point in his scientific the capabilities of hypnosis readily available, and he might career. Henceforth, these repressed infantile recollections well have unravelled their implications. would be considered to be fantasies-an assumption and a Instead, he posited "repression, " which was a euphe- reversal of opinion destined to move psychoanalytic theory mism for "forgetting. " It contained little conceptual direc- in new directions. tion, whereas self-hypnosis would have led to the well- Such vivid fantasies in children could only mean that known amnesia of hypnosis, which is the defensive capabil- children were not sexually innocent. They must have had a ity of hypnosis. This, in turn, goes to the concept of a rich early sexual life which had gone undetected. Further- hypnotic concealment, ergo a hypnotic unconscious. In- more, if girls had fantasized seduction by their fathers, it stead of recognizing a variety of unconscious processes, he indicated, following this reasoning, that they wished such was forced to postulate an unconscious with a confusing experiences. Why else should such fantasies be present? As conglomerate of elements which defied scientific examina- a result of this speculation, he had "stumbled for the first tion. time upon the Oedipus complex," and it became a funda- In his letters to Fleiss, Freud wrote (1948) that the theory mental assumption of psychoanalysis. of repression became the foundation stone of the under- The concept of infantile sexual fantasies had ineluctably standing of neuroses.
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