forbidden to give himself up to the perverse thoughts. Of course, I
did not give him the foolish advice not to think of blows at all. The
patient could not follow such advice, since the thoughts come to him
without any act of his own, even when he accidentally reads the word
“blow” (schlagen). I forbade him only ever to voluntarily give himself
to such thoughts. I advised him more particularly to do everything in
order to turn his ideas in another direction.