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Rh We pass then to the realm of delusions and hallucinations. Both symptoms occur in all mental diseases and also in hysteria. One therefore deals with mechanisms which are universally formed and are set free by the most variable injuries. What chiefly interests us is the content of the delusions and hallucinations to which we may also add the pathological fancies. Here, too, hysteria, this most transparent disease, can help us. Obsessive ideas can be placed parallel to delusions; so may also the affective narrow-minded prejudices which are so often met with in hysteria, and the stubbornly asserted bodily pains and complaints. I cannot repeat the genesis of these hysterical and delusional assertions, I must presuppose a knowledge of Freud's investigations. The delusional assertions of the hysteric are transferences, that is, the accompanying affect does not belong to them but to a repressed complex, which is veiled in this manner. An indomitable obsessive idea only goes to show that a complex (generally sexual) is repressed; the same is true of the other stubbornly asserted hysterical symptoms. We now have a well-grounded hypothesis (I base this on many dozens of analyses), that an undoubtedly similar process exists in the delusional