[7] The expression “sexual latency period” (sexuelle latenz-periode) I have borrowed from W. Fliess.

[8] In the case here discussed the sublimation of the sexual motive powers proceed on the road of reaction formations.  But in general it is necessary to separate from each other sublimation and reaction formation as two diverse processes.  Sublimation may also result through other and simpler mechanisms.

[9] Jahrbuch fuer Kinderheilkunde, N.F., XIV, 1879.

[10] This already shows what holds true for the whole life, namely, that sexual gratification is the best hypnotic.  Most nervous insomnias are traced to lack of sexual gratification.  It is also known that unscrupulous nurses calm crying children to sleep by stroking their genitals.

[11] Ellis spoils, however, the sense of his invented term by comprising under the phenomena of autoerotism the whole of hysteria and masturbation in its full extent.

[12] Further reflection and observation lead me to attribute the quality of erogenity to all parts of the body and inner organs.  See later on narcism.

[13] Compare here the very comprehensive but confusing literature on onanism, e.g., Rohleder, Die Masturbation, 1899.  Cf. also the pamphlet, “Die Onanie,” which contains the discussion of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, Wiesbaden, 1912.

[14] Compare here the essay on “Charakter und Analerotic” in the Sammlung kleiner Schriften zur Neurosenlehre, Zweite Folge, 1909.  Cf. also Brill, Psychanalysis, Chap.  XIII, Anal Eroticism and Character, W.B.  Saunders, Philadelphia.

[15] Unusual techniques in the performance of onanism seem to point to the influence of a prohibition against onanism which has been overcome.

[16] Why neurotics, when conscience stricken, regularly connect it with their onanistic activity, as was only recently recognized by Bleuler, is a problem which still awaits an exhaustive analysis.

[17] Freud, Selected Papers on Hysteria and Other Psychoneuroses, 3d edition, translated by A.A.  Brill, N.Y.  Nerv. and Ment.  Dis.  Pub.  Co.  Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph, Series No. 4.

[18] Havelock Ellis, in an appendix to his study on the Sexual Impulse, 1903, gives a number of autobiographic reports of normal persons treating their first sexual feelings in childhood and the causes of the same.  These reports naturally show the deficiency due to infantile amnesia; they do not cover the prehistoric time in the sexual life and therefore must be supplemented by psychoanalysis of individuals who became neurotic.  Notwithstanding this these reports are valuable in more than one respect, and information of a similar nature has urged me to modify my etiological assumption as mentioned in the text.