After reading Anna O’s case, at first, I was convinced that the “speaking out “therapy did have a miraculous power to cure a hysterical patient. Dr. Breuer’s report indicates that “when Ms. O fully ‘talks out’ her memories and associations to each of her symptom, the symptom itself would disappear.” This report reminds me of St, Augustine’s Confessions: once you talk out your fear and admit your sin, you’ll forsake. However, what surprised me is that Anna O ended up with falling in love with Dr. Breuer, who gave her the “chimney sweeping” treatment for a period of time. Does this incident imply that why Anna O can temporary be relieved from her hysterical symptom isn’t because of the “speaking out “therapy, but because during the “chimney sweeping” treatment, Dr. Breuer inserted the” happiness”, which is like an illness, to the wasteland of her life? No one can get rid of the pain of the past. The painful memory can be split off from consciousness, but actually, it is preserved in the hidden part of your heart. Once you” get a whiff of perfume or somebody will say a certain phrase or maybe hum something, you’ll be licked again.”(Detour, 1945) That is to say, the painfulness is always alive. It not only terrifies the past but also haunts our present. Therefore, although I used to consider that fears in human can subside and disappear forever, now I tend to believe that though those illnesses can be treated and be under controlled, they can never be cured. However, the illness of “happiness”, or most of the time Freud may consider it as the “imaginative pleasure of eros”, can serve as a replacement of the painfulness of human’s life and temporary rescue them from misery.