“I then gained an insight into the genesis of what might be termed a monosymptomatic hysteria. I found that her right leg became painful during our hypnoses when they involved memories of nursing her father, of her relations with her childhood sweetheart, and of other things that fell within that first part of the pathogenic period; by contrast, the pain in the other, left leg responded as soon as I had woken a memory of the sister she had lost or of her two brothers-in-law; in short, an impression from the second half of her illness,” Freud has written.

--In light of the insight thus gained, what eventual explanation did Freud come up with for the unusual location of the hysterogenic zone in the case of Elisabeth?

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