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128 3. Discord (stereotype: "It is such a great discord"): Discords—it is even criminal—I have to be cared for—I saw in a dream how two persons twisted two cords in the loft—these are two such big discords—I have to be cared for—discords can by no means go any more on this floor—it is too great discord that they don't wish to care for me—they made laces in the loft and worked on without thinking or caring for me—discords come from negligence—discords do not belong to this floor, but to Siberia—it is the highest time that I should be cared for, I have consumption—instead of providing for me now the bank title—they always continue to work—both have accidentally made laces in the loft.

"Discord" seems to express something like "precarious states." Patient especially feels precarious because the doctor never wishes to hear anything regarding the payment which she demands at each visit. She then mostly complains about the selfishness of humanity who only think of themselves and "always continue to work on" without thinking of the payment. The dreamlike intermezzo of the two men who were twisting two cords in the loft and "always continued to work" without thinking of caring for patient can be conceived as a symbol for the indifference with which patient is here treated. "Siberia" also points to the bad treatment. In spite of the splendid health which she on another occasion claims to enjoy she considers herself "consumptive." But just like all other self-evident absurdities these too do not conflict. Dementia præcox has also this in common with normal dreams. Moreover it can also be observed in hysterics and in somewhat emotional normal individuals; as soon as they mention their complex they talk in a contradictory manner. The reproduction of complex-ideas is always disturbed in this or that direction or it is falsified. Judgment concerning the complexes is almost always somewhat clouded or uncertain. Everyone who occupies himself with psychoanalysis knows this.

4. Monopoly (stereotype: "I am Schiller's Bell and the monopoly or bank monopoly"): With me it expresses itself in the bank note factory—very black windows—I saw that in my dream—that is paralysis—seven floored note factory—it is a double house, a front one, and the back is the residence—the note factory is real American—the factory is drawn into the monopoly