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130 account of too great distress (Not)—the notes are of the same value as the moneys—all that is necessary to order—banknotes to alleviate the greatest (Not) distress—payments of wealth circumstances—I should with the town through life—the note factory should at all events be on our soil—I with four gentlemen should forever pay out with it—it would be a great loss to die one year earlier than is necessary, etc.

We can be satisfied with this fragment of the much longer analysis originally made. I believe it is clear whence the conception of "bank note factory" originates. Bank notes mitigate the (Not) distress. In this way another sound-symbolic connection was created, as so frequently happens in dreams. Thus one complex assimilates the other, and the two complexes are condensed in the words Not (distress) and bank notes, so that one conception always contains the other. It is quite characteristic of dreamlike ideation, that the most banal resemblances give cause for condensation. Two simultaneously existing complexes always blend also in normal conditions, especially in dreams, where the tertium comparationis may be any superficial resemblance. The money complex and the distress complex are both related as to contents; for this reason alone they must blend; distress (Not) and bank notes on account of their sound-association gain as to contents even greater significance. This type of thinking, as all psychiatrists know, is met with not only in dementia præcox, but in many other obscure manifestations. I call attention, for example, to the mystical interpretation of the name "Napoleon."

6. Oleum: belongs to the title "eternal"—it is for an old age—if I die, the title is gone, everything is gone—it is a somewhat longer duration of office of life—oleum serves toward prolonging—it belongs to me, but I don't know of what it is composed—one affirms the age—already since 1886.

Oleum seems to be an elixir of life which is to prolong the precious life of the patient. The expression "duration of office of life" is quite a characteristic pleonasm of patient. We see in this mainly the hazy thinking which joins together two totally different ideas. It also shows the pronounced tendency of patient to express herself as learnedly as possible (court language), a thing also common to many normal persons who strive