abreact

language serves as a substitute for action; by its help, an affect can be 'abreacted'" (p.

The story is not abreacted for Quentin through telling; instead, he experiences it as an event in endless repetition.

Freud and Breuer suggest that "language serves as a substitute for action; by its help, an affect can be 'abreacted' almost as effectively" (8).

Another believes in the abreaction of all emotion--and so he must have abreacted all his own emotions.

Freud labels these memories "parthogenic," and he notes that hysterical patients surfer from incompletely abreacted psychical traumas.