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The essential feature of this method is that it provides expression for repressed emo- tions, these constituting "a painful and disturbing element in the organism"; it eflFects "the elimination of alien matter. " This mere expression has been found curative in psychoneuroses. The Greeks were apparently familiar with a cathartic treatment for morbid emotional states, persons afflicted with madness or "enthu- siasm" being treated by music, which accomplished an emotional cleansing analo- gous to ...that accomplished by tragedy. Persons so treated, says Aristotle, "fall back into their normal state, as if they had undergone a medical or purgative treatment. " Perhaps this is one of the matters which the Greeks understood better than we. See Butcher, Aristotle's Theory of Poetry, Chap. IX; cf. Plato. Charmides, Jowett's translation, third edition, Vol. I, p. 13. > I III ^et us now again return to the subject of dreams. Dreams, as has been said, have their origin in the depths of the mind, in -unconscious mental processes, — that is, in proc- esses which do not come to our knowledge except indirectly, or under unusual or abnormal conditions, — the conditions supplied, for example, in dreams, in day dreams and halluci- nations, and in certain neurotic activities.
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