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.