Note 13 — Chapter I · The Psychic Mechanism of Hysterical Phenomena.[10] (Preliminary Communication.)
A. A. (Abraham Arden) Brill translation
The German abreagiren has no exact English equivalent. It will therefore be rendered throughout the text by “ab-react,” the literal meaning is to react away from or to react off. It has different shades of meaning, from defense reaction to emotional catharsis, which can be discerned from the context.