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(1929) [MARC] Author: Axel Munthe - Tema: Medicine
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take advantage of this superiority of his, he would
never challenge me for he considers me his social
inferior. You mentioned the word hypnotism,
well I am getting sick of the very word, it is
constantly thrown in my face because I have been a
pupil of Charcot’s. Understand once for all that
all this nonsense about hypnotic power is an
exploded theory denied by modern science. It is
not a case of hypnotism, it is a case of
imagination. This fool imagines that I have hypnotized
him, it is not I who have put this silly idea in his
head, he has done it all by himself, we call it
auto-suggestion. So much the better for me. It
makes him powerless to harm me at least face to
face.”

“But could you hypnotize him if you wanted
to do so?”

“Yes, easily, he is an excellent subject,
Charcot would be delighted to demonstrate him at his
Tuesday lectures at the Salpêtrière.”

“Since you say that there is no such thing as
hypnotic power, do you mean to say that I for
instance could make him obey my orders as he
obeyed yours?”

“Yes, granted he believed that you possessed
this power, which he certainly does not believe.”

“Why not?”

“The real difficulty begins here, a satisfactory
answer to your question cannot be given
to-day. This is a relatively new science, still in its
infancy.”

“Could you make him commit a crime?”

“Not unless he was capable of committing such
a crime of his own initiative. Since I am

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