Note 119 — Chapter XI · FAMILY INFLUENCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE LOVE LIFE
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Though not perhaps quite so superficial as is often supposed. Psycho-analytic work has drawn attention to the influence that a name may often exercise upon the behaviour and mental characteristics of its possessor. (Cp. Stekel, "Die Verpflichtung des Namens," Zeitschrift für Psychotherapie und medizinische Psychologie, III, Part 2, 1911. Abraham, "Über die determinierende Kraft des Namens," Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse, II, 1912, 133). Goethe (Wahlverwandtschaften, Part I, Ch. 2) too had already noticed the possibility of this influence.