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80 injured in the acute stages where the patients often are in a real dream, that is, in a "complex-delirium."

The hallucinatory delirious phases may, as we have said, be placed parallel to hysteria (of course it must always be kept in mind that we deal with two different diseases). The content of the hysterical delirium, as we readily discover when we use Freud's method of analysis, is always a clear complex-delirium; that is, the pathogenic complex appears as self-acting and spends its vitality usually in the form of wish-realization.

In the corresponding acute phases of dementia praecox we do not have to look long in order to find similar things. Every psychiatrist knows the deliria of unmarried women who pass through betrothals, marriages, coitus, pregnancies and births. I content myself here with this allusion, reserving everything till later, when I shall return to these questions. They are of extra- ordinary importance for the determination of the symptoms.