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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 mmne- 
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 affectivity 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 
