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The Psychology of the Emotions

Note 157 — Chapter VI · THE SEXUAL INSTINCT.

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M. Pierre Janet mentions the case of a woman in whom “the family feelings, the affective emotions, modesty, and the sensitiveness of the genital organs appeared and disappeared simultaneously.” He adds: “Which of these phenomena brings the others in its train? Is genital sensibility a centre round which other psychological syntheses are constructed? I draw no conclusion.”—État mental des Hystériques, i. pp. 217, 218.

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