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134 resembling Schiller's Bell. Following her familiar practice of thought and speech the condensation takes place without any further considerations, and the patient is then Schiller's Bell. Because the patient now created her greatest and utmost work ("the world was helped out of misery"), therefore nothing greater can follow, besides she is of advanced age. It is therefore no wonder that the complex of death-expectation becomes manifested (even among normal persons at such an age it plays no small part), and she then urges "immediate help," whereby she naturally means the payment. By way of instructive intermezzo I may mention here that the patient took it very much amiss of the former superintendent Forel because he did not give her the "payments." Once during an analysis she said: "I saw also in my dream how Mr. Forel was struck by a bullet by means of which he caused his own death—that is really awfully stupid—one has not always continued to do thus, if one really affirmed the note factory." Patient rids herself of her enemies by shooting them in her dreams. I mention this example, not because it is of interest for the psychology of our patient, but because it is the usual typical way by which normal and morbid individuals rid themselves in their dreams of persons who stand in their way. We can repeatedly confirm this in our analysis of dreams.

I content myself with these nine analyses, they ought to suffice for a general view of the patient's painfully accentuated complexes. Her principal sufferings play an important part, such as "the burdening system" and the "paralysis," etc. The following thoughts express themselves in the stereotypies: she suffers under the discipline inflicted by the doctors and under the treatment of the nurses. She is not recognized, and her merits are not rewarded in spite of the fact that she created the best of everything. Of great significance for the determination of various stereotypies is the complex of death-expectation which she attempts to appease by "affirming" an elixir of life. A person with vivid self-consciousness who was for any reason forced into such a hopeless and morally annihilating situation would probably dream in a similar manner. Every emotional and aspiring individual experiences moments of doubt and apprehension in the very hours of his keenest self-confidence, during which