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IV. 



The hypothesis of the mnemonic origin and nature of 

 all affective tendencies finds still further support in a 

 property which is inherent in all of them, namely their 

 ''transference" which likewise is itself essentially mne- 

 monic and by which all other affectivities are derived 

 from those of direct mnemonic origin and thus come to 

 have an indirect mnemonic origin (Ribot's "law of 

 transference"). 



For in consequence of the "substitution of a part for 

 the whole," a fundamental mnemonic principle frequently 

 mentioned above, it happens that merely parts or frag- 

 ments of certain environmental relations, striven for 

 originally in their totality, or that "analogous" environ- 

 mental relations, i. e., those that are only partly similar 

 to one desired, or that environmental relations constituting 

 "means" suited to the attainment of an "end" and there- 

 fore its necessary precursors, or, in fine, that environmen- 

 tal relations which constantly accompany this "end," 

 evoke the same affectivity as the original "end" itself. 

 Hence this affe^tivity is "transferred" from the whole to 

 the part, and this attachment for the part then becomes 

 so much stronger that this partial relation which is first 

 sought as a substitute for the whole finally constitutes 

 in its turn an habitual environmental relation hencefor- 

 ward desired or sought for its own sake quite apart from 

 the real and original affective "transference." 



This is the case for instance, as has been mentioned 

 above, with regard to copulation, the customary means 

 for the elimination of germinal substance, and also with 

 regard to the secondary sexual relations as phenomena 

 usually accompanying copulation. The "conquest" of 



