Note 33 — Chapter VI · POLITICAL AGITATORS

Joel Rinaldo paraphrases Freud in his Psychoanalysis of the “Reformer” and without supporting cases argues that the reformer is always a meddling hysteric. This is not to be taken for granted, for he may more often prove to be an obsessive type, when he shows mental pathology. For the best picture of the two clinical types, see Janet, Les névroses.