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Psychopathology of Everyday Life to forgetting. Our conception of such forgetting confines the distinction between this and that behaviour to purely psychologic relations, and permits us to see in both forms of reaction the expression of the same motive. Of the numerous examples of denials of unpleasant recollection which I have observed in kinsmen of patients, one remains in my memory as especially singular.

A mother telling me of the childhood of her nervous son, now in his puberty, made the state ment that, like his brothers and sisters, he was subject to bed-wetting throughout his childhood, 150