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Patient compares herself and her acts to the greatest hero known in the world's history. She therefore uses helmet to express a complex expression.

Patient is a tailoress and always boasts of her excellent taste.

Patient says "if one passes through a bedroom one should walk gently, so as not to awaken the others."

Here we have a distinct constellation of the asylum life. She implicitly shows that she possesses the right tact.

This is a mediate association of "lame." Patient feels herself "paralyzed."

Patient says "cleanliness creates good conditions," a general exression for implicit self praise.

A part of her desiderata.

This also belongs to the complex of her extraordinary intelligence.

I do not wish to heap up examples, for we can find all the essentials from those mentioned. We are struck before all, by enormous number of quite clear complex-constellations. With few exceptions all associations are scantily veiled complex-expressions. Because the complexes stand everywhere prominently in the foreground we have the corresponding disturbances of the experiments. The extraordinary long reaction times throughout could be partially explained by the constantly encroaching complexes, a thing more rarely seen in the normal and