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Psychopathology of Everyday Life could not recall the name of the psychiatrist, Young (Jung).

&ldquo;Instead, the following names occurred to her: Kl. (a name)—Wilde—Nietzsche—Hauptmann.

&ldquo;I did not tell her the name, and requested her to repeat her free associations to every thought.

&ldquo;To Kl. she at once thought of Mrs. Kl., that she was an embellished and affected person who looked very well for her age. &lsquo;She does not age.&rsquo; As a general and principal conception of Wilde and Nietzsche, she gave the association &lsquo;mental disease.&rsquo; She then added jocosely: &lsquo;The Freudians will continue looking for the causes of mental diseases until they themselves become insane.&rsquo; She continued: &lsquo;I cannot bear Wilde and Nietzsche. I do not understand them. I hear that they were both homosexual. Wilde has occupied himself with young people&rsquo; (although she uttered in this sentence the correct name she still could not remember it).

&ldquo;To Hauptmann she associated the words hall and youth, and only after I called her attention to the word youth did she become aware that she was looking for the name Young (Jung).&rdquo; It is clear that this lady, who had lost her husband at the age of thirty-nine, and had no prospect of marrying a second time, had cause enough to avoid reminiscences recalling youth or old age. The remarkable thing is that the concealing thoughts of the desired name came to the surface 44