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cured, he was living in constant fear of blackmail
and was most distressed over their failure. He
said he was convinced it was his only chance,
that he felt sure he would be all right if he could
be put to sleep.
“But you are asleep,” said I, barely touching
his forehead with the top of my fingers, no passes,
no staring in his eyes, no suggestion. The words
were hardly out of my mouth before his eyelids
closed with a slight tremor, he was in deep
hypnotic sleep in less than a minute. It looked
hopeful at first, a month later he returned to his
country full of confidence for the future, far more
so than I was. He said he was going to propose
to a young lady he had become fond of of late,
he was most anxious to marry and have children.
I lost sight of him. A year later I heard by a
mere accident that he had killed himself. Had
this unhappy man consulted me a few years later
when I had acquired more knowledge of sexual
inversion I would never have attempted the
hopeless task of curing him.
Outside the Salpêtrière I have hardly ever
come across Charcot’s famous three stages of
hypnosis so strikingly exhibited during his
Tuesday lectures. They were all invented by himself,
grafted on his hysterical subjects and accepted
by his pupils by the powerful suggestion of the
Master. The same affirmation holds good in
regard to his special hobby, his grande hystérie
then rampant all over the Salpêtrière, ward after
ward full of it, now almost extinct. The fact
that all these experiments in hypnotism were
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