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76 and interpretations. The unconscious shows a special tendency towards new speech formation. (See the "Himmelssprachen" of the classical somnambulists, and especially the interesting creations of Helene Smith.)

Regardlessness, narrow-mindedness, and an inaccessibility to persuasion, we find both in the normal and pathological spheres, especially when accompanied by affective causes. Under certain conditions there need only exist a firm religious or other conviction to make a person careless, cruel and narrow-minded. There is no necessity to assume for this an emotional dementia. On account of their excessive sensitiveness hysterics become egotistic and inconsiderate, and in this manner they torment themselves as well as their fellow beings. For this, too, there need be no dementia, it is simply a blinding through the affect. Indeed I must here again repeat the already often-mentioned restriction, namely, that between hysteria and dementia præcox there is only a resemblance of the psychological mechanism, but no identity. In dementia præcox these mechanisms reach much deeper perhaps because they are complicated by toxic effects.

The silly behavior of the hebephrenic finds its analogy in the Moria states of hysterics. I had under observation for some time a hysterical woman of high intelligence who frequently