Synthesized answer
The provided passages suggest that sound-similarity plays a significant role in the forgetting of the name "Verona." The author identified the cause of amnesia as being linked to a former servant named Veronica, stating "Her name was Veronica; in Hungarian Verona" [3]. This strong phonetic connection between Veronica and Verona is implied as the reason for the forgetting.
Furthermore, a general principle is presented where the "name of an Italian city withdrew itself from memory on account of its far-reaching sound-similarity to a woman’s first name" [5]. While this passage does not explicitly name Verona, it describes a mechanism that directly applies to the situation presented in passage [3], where the forgotten city name (Verona) is phonetically similar to a woman's first name (Veronica). The passages do not elaborate on other potential roles of sound-similarity in this specific instance of forgetting Verona beyond this direct phonetic resemblance.
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ounded. Indeed, I would even go so far as to assert that in the majority of cases one reproduces a false initial sound. Also in our example _Signorelli_ the substitutive name lacked the initial sound, and the principal syllables were lost; on the other hand, the less important pair of syllables _elli_ returned to consciousness in the substitutive name _Botticelli_. How little substitutive names respect the initial sound of the lost names may be learned from the following case. One day I found it impossible to recall the name of the small country whose capital is Monte Carlo. The…
bert the forgotten name _Monaco_. _Colico_ practically imitates the syllabic sequence and rhythm of the forgotten name. If we admit the conjecture that a mechanism similar to that pointed out in the forgetting of names may also play a part in the phenomena of speech-blunders, we are then led to a better founded judgment of cases of speech-blunders. The speech disturbance which manifests itself as a speech-blunder may in the first place be caused by the influence of another component of the same speech, that is, through a fore-sound or an echo, or through another meaning within the…
at I had spent two very pleasant days there; this, of course, does not quite concur with Freud’s theory of forgetting. Instead of the desired name of the city there obtruded themselves the following thoughts: ‘Capua--Brescia--the lion of Brescia.’ This lion I saw objectively before me in the form of a marble statue, but I soon noticed that he resembled less the lion of the statue of liberty in Brescia (which I saw only in a picture) than the other marble lion which I saw in Lucerne on the monument in honour of the Swiss Guard fallen in the Tuileries. I finally thought of the desired…
d lead to the reproduction of the lost name is, as it were, displaced, and thus brings one to an incorrect substitute. Now it is my assumption that the displacement is not left to psychic arbitrariness, but that it follows lawful and rational paths. In other words, I assume that the substitutive name (or names) stands in direct relation to the lost name, and I hope, if I succeed in demonstrating this connection, to throw light on the origin of the forgetting of names. In the example which I selected for analysis in 1898 I vainly strove to recall the name of the master who made the…
le as those given before, but which will appear credible and valuable to those more familiar with such investigations. The name of an Italian city withdrew itself from memory on account of its far-reaching sound-similarity to a woman’s first name, which was in turn connected with various emotional reminiscences which were surely not exhaustively treated in this report. Dr. S. Ferenczi, who observed this case of forgetting in himself, treated it--quite justly--as an analysis of a dream or an erotic idea. “To-day I visited some old friends, and the conversation turned to cities of…