Chapter XII: Conclusion: And Résumé

If now at the close of this book we bring together all our material, we may with certainty or with the highest probability speak of sleep walking and moon walking as follows:

1. Sleep walking under or without the influence of the moon represents a motor outbreak of the unconscious and serves, like the dream, the fulfilment of secret, forbidden wishes, first of the present, behind which however infantile wishes regularly hide. Both prove themselves in all the cases analyzed more or less completely as of a sexual erotic nature.

2. Those wishes also which present themselves without disguise are mostly of the same nature. The leading wish may be claimed to be that the sleep walker, male or female, would climb into bed with the loved object as in childhood, which both the folk and the poet well know. The love object need not belong necessarily to the present, it can much more likely be one of earliest childhood.

3. Not infrequently the sleep walker identifies himself with the beloved person, sometimes even puts on his clothes, linen or outer garments, or imitates his manner to the life.

4. Sleep walking can also have an infantile prototype, when the child pretends to be asleep in order that it may be able, without fear of punishment, to experience all sorts of forbidden things, that is of a sexual nature, because it cannot be held accountable for that which it does "unconsciously, in its sleep." The same motive of not being held accountable actuates the adult sleep walker, who will satisfy his sexual desires, yet without incurring guilt in so doing. The same cause works also psychically, when sleep walking occurs mostly in the very deepest sleep, even if organic causes are likewise responsible for it.

5. The motor outbreak during sleep, which drives one from rest in bed and results in sleep walking and wandering under the light of the moon, may be referred to this, that all sleep walkers exhibit a heightened muscular irritability and muscle erotic, the endogenous excitement of which can compensate for the giving up of the rest in bed. In accordance with this these phenomena are especially frequent in the offspring of alcoholics, epileptics, sadists and hysterics with preponderating involvement of the motor apparatus.

6. Sleep walking and moon walking are in themselves as little symptoms of hysteria as of epilepsy. Yet they are found frequently in conjunction with the former.

7. The influence of the moon in this moon affectivity is very little known, especially in its psychic overdetermination. Yet there is little doubt that the moon's light is reminiscent of the light in the hand of a beloved parent, who every night came in loving solicitude to assure himself or herself of the child's sleep. Nothing so promptly wakes the sleep walker as the calling of his name, which accords with his being spoken to as a child by the parent. Fixed gazing upon the planet also has probably an erotic coloring like the staring of the hypnotizer to secure hypnosis. Other psychic overdeterminations appear merely to fit individual cases. It is possible finally that there actually exists a special power of attraction in the moon, which may expressly force the moon walker out of his bed and entice him to longer walks, but on this point we have no scientific hypotheses.

8. Furthermore it seems possible that sleep walking and moon walking may be permanently cured through Freud's psychoanalytic method.

I know very well that this explanation which I give here, offers only the first beginning of an understanding. It will be the task of a future, which we hope is not too far distant, to comprehend fully these puzzling phenomena.

INDEX

"Aebelö," ix, 45

Alcoholics, 137
descendants of, 25

Alcoholism, 1

Anorexia, hysteric, 76

Anxiety dreams, 41

Anzengruber, Ludwig, ix, 106

Audition, color, 91

Blood, 3, 15, 17, 20

Burdach, Karl Friedrich, 35

"Buschnovelle," 91

Buttocks, 7
moon as, 19

Cataleptic muscular rigidity, 25

Color audition, 74, 91

Compulsion, 6

Compulsive neurotic, 77, 91

Conception, Immaculate, 62, 73
unconscious, 62, 73

Concussion of the brain, 2

Consciousness, disturbances of, 32

Contractures, 25

Convulsion, hysterical, 85, 90

Convulsions, 25
muscular, 90

Convulsive attacks, 2, 7, 25

Cruelty, 25

Dream, Function of, x
relationship between sleep-walking and, 21

Dreams, anxiety, 41
frightful, 7
of Gro, 61
terrifying, 25

Dysuria psychica, 27

Eclamptic attacks, 2

Enuresis nocturna, 2
pleasure in, 29

Enuretic, 1

Epilepsy, viii, 1, 138

Epileptics, 137
descendants of, 25

Eroticism, muscle, 63
urethral, 2
vaginal, 3

Erotic, muscle, 8, 25, 31, 42, 90, 137
nature, 23
urethral, 27

Exhibition, 22

Exhibitionism, 36

Exhibitionistic, 70

Folk belief, 62
interpretation, 82
mind, 24
tale, 81

Frenssen, Gustav, ix, 63

Freud, 104, 127, 130, 131

Freud's psychoanalytic method, 138

Ganghofer, Ludwig, ix, 40

Ghostly hour, 27, 81

Ghosts, belief in, 26

Hemoptysis, 3, 15, 20

Holinshed's "History of Scotland," 115

Homosexual, 2

Homosexuality, 20

Hypnosis, 138

Hypnotic fixation, 26
somnambulism, viii, 22

Hypnotism, love transference in, 26

Hypnotist, 23

Hypnotized subject, 23

Hysteria, viii, 33, 138

Hysteric, 30

Hysteric anorexia, 76

Hysterical cardiac distress, 27
convulsion, 85, 90
opisthotonos, 86
somnambulism, viii
tendency, 91

Hysterics, 25, 75, 137

Immaculate conception, 62, 73

Infantile causes, 113
erotic, 71
regression, 136
sexuality, 21

"Interpretation of Dreams," 127, 130, 131

"Jörn Uhl," 63

Kleist, Heinrich von, ix, 46, 97

Krafft-Ebing, viii, 20, 25

"Lebensmagie, Wirklichkeit und Traum," 92

Libido, 23
repressed, 10

Ludwig, Otto, ix, 45, 72, 91

"Macbeth," 114

Macbeth, Lady, 114

"Maria," 72

Masochistic, sadistic, 7

Menstruation, 3, 15, 17, 30, 70

Michaelis, Sophus, ix, 45

Moonstruck, vii

Motor activities, 23
impulse, 70
overexcitability, 26
phenomena of dreams, viii, ix
stimulability, 25

Mundt, Theodor, 92

Muscular activity, 31, 70
convulsions, 90
excitability, 63, 90
irritability, heightened, 137
rigidity, cataleptic, 25
sense, viii

Muscle erotic, 8, 25, 27, 31, 42, 90, 137
eroticism, 63

Myopia, 77, 91

Nates, 26

Neurotic, compulsive, 77

Neuroses, 22

Night wandering, vii

Noctambulism, vii

Nosebleed, 30

Organic disposition, 25

Orgasm, 2

Paralysis of arm, 26

Paralyses, 25

Pavor nocturnus, 25

Phantasies, sexual, 17, 19

Poets, 24, 45

"Prinz von Homburg, Der," 97

Psychoanalysis for moon walking, ix

Puberty, 21, 41, 80, 82

Rank, Otto, 102, 134

Regression, 113, 136

Repressed libido, 10

Repression, 60

Sadistic, 20, 25

Sadistic-masochistic, 2, 7

Sadism, 8
blood, 2

Sadists, 137

Shakespeare, ix, 114

Sleep, normal, vii, viii

Somnambulism, vii, 22
hysterical and hypnotic, viii

Somnambulist, 23

Spirits, belief in, 26

Splitting of mother complex, 77

"Sündkind, Das," 106

Synesthesia, 74, 91

Talking in sleep, 7, 33

Tic, 90

Tieck, Ludwig, ix, 42, 124

Transference in hypnotism, 26

Unconscious conception, 62, 73

Urethral erotic, 27
eroticism, 2

Vaginal eroticism, 3

"Woman in white," 26

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Conclusion and Resumé 137
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of importance to medical pschology. The author of this book has pursued
of importance to medical psychology. The author of this book has pursued

writers of these preceding science have made in regard to sleep walking
writers of the preceding science have made in regard to sleep walking

[1] Über Nachtwandeln und Mondsucht. Eine medizinish-literarische
[1] Über Nachtwandeln und Mondsucht. Eine medizinisch-literarische

Sechzentes Heft, Leipzig und Wien, Franz Deuticke, 1914.
Sechzehntes Heft, Leipzig und Wien, Franz Deuticke, 1914.

[6] "Über den sado-masochistichen Komplex," Jahr. f. psychoanal.
[6] "Über den sado-masochistischen Komplex," Jahrb. f. psychoanal.

sleep. In the same way similar erotic motives and analagous behavior may
sleep. In the same way similar erotic motives and analogous behavior may

it for him. Then I went to bed and slept soundly for some hours, as I
it for him.' Then I went to bed and slept soundly for some hours, as I

no sign of waking. This must represent a second form of consciounsess,
no sign of waking. This must represent a second form of consciousness,

"At that time I had to sleep in a small room which by brother had
"At that time I had to sleep in a small room which my brother had

Before going to sleep I always barred the door of the room, which near
"Before going to sleep I always barred the door of the room, which near

brothr-in-law Emil had first taken breakfast with her mother in her
brother-in-law Emil had first taken breakfast with her mother in her

maiden in her nightgown, who thus exhibits hereself in her night garment
maiden in her nightgown, who thus exhibits herself in her night garment

perform coitus."--How is that?"--"I have remonstrated rather seriously
perform coitus."--"How is that?"--"I have remonstrated rather seriously

mother call you, or did you come of yourself?"--I believe that my
mother call you, or did you come of yourself?"--"I believe that my

gone he could do nothing more to the mother. And they you could take his
gone he could do nothing more to the mother. And then you could take his

again"--"Or rather, I bolt the door so that my father cannot come to my
again."--"Or rather, I bolt the door so that my father cannot come to my

in!'--"That would mean also that if the mother wants to come, only she
in!'"--"That would mean also that if the mother wants to come, only she

he answered me, 'Yes, here I am!'--"What about the warden of the
he answered me, 'Yes, here I am!'"--"What about the warden of the

myself immediately, realizing where I was, and went beck to bed. I told
myself immediately, realizing where I was, and went back to bed. I told

episode: 'When I was nine or ten years old, the healthy brother was ill
episode: "When I was nine or ten years old, the healthy brother was ill

lunacy but of a vertable moon lover, presumably our poet himself. There
lunacy but of a veritable moon lover, presumably our poet himself. There

all this he did not become so quickly aware, as that his own checks
all this he did not become so quickly aware, as that his own cheeks

with massive oak or iron bars. So finally he gave up entirely and
with massive oak or iron bars. "So finally he gave up entirely and

surrounded her. He compelled himeslf to leave the clear broad way of
surrounded her. He compelled himself to leave the clear broad way of

look would draw from me--what would you drag out from my soul?--'The
look would draw from me--what would you drag out from my soul?'--'The

occurred to her the many nights when she had dreamed of the lonely
occurred to her the many nights "when she had dreamed of the lonely

his fresh dream kissees. Still she consciously kept back every outer
his fresh dream kisses. Still she consciously kept back every outer

I can deal more briefly with Jörn Uhl," the well-known rural romance of
I can deal more briefly with "Jörn Uhl," the well-known rural romance of

not yet late"--"The sky is so clear. I want to look at the stars once
not yet late."--"The sky is so clear. I want to look at the stars once

child and in his way solemnly declares "I will never do it again," and
child and in his way solemnly declares, "I will never do it again," and

for reverence.'"
for reverence."

is the love--one can call it nothing else--which the child betows upon
is the love--one can call it nothing else--which the child bestows upon

now for the first time a child no more. Maria thus felt herself through
now for the first time a child no more." Maria thus felt herself through

manner." Only all to evident! This punishment was in reality a
manner." Only all too evident! This punishment was in reality a

The friendliness, the affectionate regard, which spoke so unmistakably
"The friendliness, the affectionate regard, which spoke so unmistakably

good. Since she could not yet entirely believe she asked, "Is it indeed
good." Since she could not yet entirely believe she asked, "Is it indeed

and said confusedly, "See this beautiful child, Eisener, Sir!" Maria
and said confusedly, 'See this beautiful child, Eisener, Sir!'" Maria

premonition of a happy life with Eisener and her George."
premonition of a happy life with Eisener and her George.

[25] Cf. with this especially Ernest Jentsch, "Das Pathologische bei
[25] Cf. with this especially Ernst Jentsch, "Das Pathologische bei

[27] Rhapsodies over the Employment of the Psychical Method of
[27] "Rhapsodies over the Employment of the Psychical Method of

the laurel wreath, saying, "Dearest Natalie, Why run away from me?" and
the laurel wreath, saying, "Dearest Natalie! Why run away from me?" and

Who lately had arrived at our encampment?'
Who lately had arrived at our encampment?"

Kruges," ("The Broken Pitcher.") These daintiest hands belonged to his
Kruges." ("The Broken Pitcher.") These daintiest hands belonged to his

limits but becomes much more a peculiar neurotic charactertistic. No less
limits but becomes much more a peculiar neurotic characteristic. No less

in life, by displacing it over upon a discovered or given material.
in life, by displacing it over a discovered or given material.

everything as possible and is ready to sacrifiee even the hand of the
everything as possible and is ready to sacrifice even the hand of the

the justice of the sentence--I might almost has said, after he had asked
the justice of the sentence--I might almost have said, after he had asked

not only remorse seized him but be began to curse at the folk, who see
not only remorse seized him but he began to curse at the folk, who see

'that's the end,' and there remains nothing more to tell." Soon he
'that's the end, and there remains nothing more to tell.'" Soon he

The multitudinous seas incarnardine,
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,

his bloody hands, "This is a sorry sight"! It was only a foolish
his bloody hands, "This is a sorry sight!" It was only a foolish

come, give me your hand!' and bade her go to bed.
come, give me your hand!" and bade her go to bed.

phantasies of childhood? I can only reply to this apparently justified
phantasies of childhood?" I can only reply to this apparently justified

their later reappearancess in the great dramas.
their later reappearances in the great dramas.

apparently so fundamentally different for one and the same thing, There
apparently so fundamentally different for one and the same thing. There

calls out, "Et tu Brute! Then fall, Cæsar!" Shakespeare has set aside
calls out, 'Et tu Brute! Then fall, Cæsar!' Shakespeare has set aside

Conception, Immacuate, 62, 73
Conception, Immaculate, 62, 73

Epilepsy, iv, 1, 138
Epilepsy, viii, 1, 138
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