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Coriat says, "all stammering, with its hesitation, its fear, its disturbing emotions, is a kind of an association test in everyday life and not a phonetic disturbance. It is a situation phobia, the same as phobias of open or closed places." Consequently, according to this view, stammering is purposeful and intentional and not accidental. This purposiveness is psychological and individualistic.
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Coriat and the Freudian school in general, than his or their say-so. I could discuss Dr. Coriat's paper from many angles, and in each case show that its conclusions were not only unsupported but impossible. But in the above remarks I have presented sufficient evidence, I believe, to carry out the objects of this criticism. The ideas in the paper are, in fact, absurd.
And he who comes forward with an explanation of this problem should be expected to give conclusive proof of his conception and for his conclusion. And we should, justly and as a matter of course, expect and demand it. And what proof has Dr. Coriat given us for his conclusions?
Let them retrace their steps and first prove the truth, soundness and validity of their psychological and sexual theories and cease pressing on to pastures new, as Dr. Coriat has done here in the case of stuttering.
Coriat, "the beginning of stammering in early childhood . . . is caused by the action of unconscious repressed thoughts upon the speech mechanism, the repressed thought obtruding itself in speech." In brief it is contended by Dr.
Coriat, but since, so far as I knew, no paper along this line had appeared in the English or American journals, I did not give the subject any serious or special consideration and had not the slightest idea of refuting the statements. When, however, Dr. Coriat's paper appeared, I concluded that it was not out of place for me at this time to enter into a criticism of these views.
This last hypothesis is one which seems to be favoured by Coriat and others, but it is certainly limited in its application. Now let us see if we cannot obtain a clearer grasp of the facts, in view of the above discussion as to the nature of the subconscious mind. We may sum-up the facts as follows:
"The attempt to repress from consciousness into the unconscious certain trends of thought or emotions, usually of a sexual nature, is the chief mechanism in stammering." This is the only place in the article where Dr. Coriat expresses any doubt as to the universal validity of his theory for all cases of stuttering.
Coriat, with which I disagree, but rather to consider only the question of the correctness or incorrectness of the general thesis which he has presented. The reasons for my entering into a criticism of this particular article by Dr. Coriat may be stated as follows: In the first place I am interested in the general problems of psychopathology, and of the psychoneuroses in particular.
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