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S. 21 "window" has a multiform significance in her delusions, one of the most important is what she designates as "ventilation." She is nightly disturbed by fecal odors which she hopes to remove by better ventilation. The very odd reaction to S. 22 "frog" is explained by patient as follows: "A person is like that when he watches how a frog leaps, I always have such paralysis in my legs." "I have a paralysis," or "that is a paralysis" are stereotypies meant to indicate a feeling of paralysis in her legs. It can be seen how very far the patient leads the assimilations to her complexes. In S. 23 "flower" the reaction camelia again sounds as though affected. The camelia belongs to the ornaments of which she dreams. S. 24 "cherry" belongs to the fruit-complex. The remarkable R. 25 "asylum—causing" is explained by patient as follows. "Private people cause such asylums. I as world proprietress established this asylum but did not cause it, in spite of the fact that someone cried out that I did on my entrance." When patient was entering this asylum the voices told her that it was her fault that this asylum existed; she, however, denied this, but since then she has delusions of owning this asylum, for as "world proprietress all great buildings, so to say, are established as her property." R. 26 "nurse—locked in" is as shown by the reaction a perseverance of the preceding complex. R. 28 "oven—draughts of interest" is explained by patient as follows: "We are the ovens for the State, I am the lessor of interest-draughts." The last sentence is stereotyped—what it signifies we will see later. Reactions like "asylum—causing," "oven—draughts of interest," are certainly typical of dementia præcox, and are not found in any other psychic abnormality.