Note 11 — Chapter II · How Nathaniel Hawthorne Exorcised Hester Prynne
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J. Laumonnier, “Le Freudisme,” p. 8. Cf. Ibid., p. 113, an essay on comparative psychology of peoples—based on Freudism. The Anglo-Saxons are apparently distinguished by a particular aptitude for inhibition and repression.