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林枕客 《狐疑》
我有一个漂亮的表姐，跟一个工程师结了婚，感情和好，生活美满。婚后三年，她突然变态：凭空指责她丈夫有外遇，日夜悲泣不已。任凭她的丈夫怎样解释，都无济于事。他只好寸步不离她，她的疑心犹不减，责备他每日死守家屋，意在追恋女佣。他换了一个女佣，她又说是他的新恋人。换上别个女佣，无论老妇童女，她无不怀疑。终于他的丈夫决心一个女佣都不用，她却乐得自己烧饭洗衣。
不久以后，她的疑心更多了。她认为妹妹、嫂嫂、姑姑，都是丈夫的恋人。于是，大家相信她发了狂，这才将她送进神经病院，施行电疗、打针，用尽百法，毫无效果。
在完全绝望的时候，我介绍一位心理学家去看她，单独与她密谈两小时后，他有了骇人的发现。
“夫人”，心理学家诚恳地说：“我愿为你摘去内心的痛苦，但请坦白见告，你曾经有什么不可告人的遭遇吗？”
这一问，好像一股电流触及她的内心痛处，她惊跳一下，低头啜泣。
“愿向上苍指誓，为夫人严守秘密”，专家继续说：“夫人，为了你的终身幸福，愿坦白见告。”
她终于说出了：半年前，她曾为一个青年而坠入情网，事后，荣誉新迫她回头改正，然而，她始终不敢正视自己既往的可耻事实，却在心理另觅一种自慰：那便是她的丈夫在外必定也有与她相似的不贞行为。久而久之，造成她反常的疑惧心理。
心理学家明白了她的病根所在，便轻易为她拔除掉了。使她逐渐领悟，她的不贞行为，乃属于她的偶然性错失，而非人人必然性的现象，更不能转移于丈夫身上。
过分多疑的心理，因素很是复杂，绝非单纯神经过敏可以解释。多疑往往由于自己的“内疚”反射于他人，在心理学上称之为“投射作用”，我用最简单的一句中国俗语，可以说明“心理投射作用”的深奥原理。这句俗语是：“有此心，反疑心”。
作品译文
Smoke Without Fire
After three happy years of conjugal life there came a sudden change in my pretty cousin’s sensual nature. She suspended her husband, an engineer, to be unfaithful and reproved him for his disloyalty without any reason. Her husband tried in every way to explain but in vain. She was in so great a distress that she wept all the time. He had to stay at home with her in the hope that he might get rid of her doubt about him. But, to his amazement, this only led to her new suspicion. She thought that he remained at home all day because he was in love with the maid. He dismissed the maid and hired a new one whom his wife would call his new love. In short, she regarded any maid, irrespective of age, as the object her husband was in pursuit of. At last, her husband decided not to keep a servant in his house, leaving all the domestic work to his wife, which she undertook without a complaint.
Not many days had elapsed before she entertained more doubts about him. She suspected even her female relations, such as her sisters-in-law, being also in love with her husband. This made people think that she had gone out of her mind. She was then sent to a hospital where she was put under various medical treatments; but all of them had no effect upon her.
Such being her case, I recommended her to a psychologist. After two hours’ tete-a-tete with her, the psychologist made a startling discovery.
“My dear madam,” began the expert in a most sincere manner, “I should be able to remove all the worries from mind if you would tell me everything frankly. Have you anything to be kept secret?”
Thus asked, she started as if she were electric-stricken and began to weep.
“If you will let me into the secret, I promise to keep it from the knowledge of others,” he continued. “For your own good, and for the happiness of your life, do tell me, madam!”
She sobbed bitterly and then gave the following account: It was about half a year ago when she met a young man with whom she fell in love. But before long, her sense of honor made her repent of her folly, and she came back to her husband again. What a shame it was to recall her past conduct, so she consoled herself by thinking that her husband must have done the same thing as she did. By and by this developed into a abnormal apprehension.
When the psychologist had found out the root of her disease, it was easy for him to uproot it. He told her that her disloyalty was due to her casual wrongdoing, not to the inevitable conduct of everybody. Nor could it be transferred to her husband.
That which gives one the feeling of distrust is rather complicated. It cannot be explained merely by nervousness. To have a suspicion against others usually comes of one’s own sick conscience. Psychologically speaking, it is called the project action, that is the process of acting upon others. A Chinese proverb that presents fully the gist of this psychological action runs, “Suspicious are those who take an interest in the matter themselves.”
