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Rh veneration for the dead mother, and in this manner repressed the ego-complex.

The psychological life at all times is rich in such examples. As will be remembered, the Daemon of Socrates also played a teleological rôle. We may recall for example the anecdote in which the Daemon warned the philosopher against a herd of swine (in Flournoy we find similar examples). Dreams, the hallucinoses of normal life, are nothing more than a hallucinatory representation of repressed complexes. Thus we see that split-off thoughts have a tendency to crowd themselves into consciousness as hallucinations. It is therefore to be expected that we find in our patients that all contrasting complexes as a result of repression should effect consciousness by means of hallucinations. Their voices are therefore almost exclusively of a disagreeable and derogatory content, also the paræsthesias and other automatic phenomena have by preference a disagreeable character. As usual we also find in a patient near the complex of grandeur the one of injury or derogation. To the derogation also belongs the normal censorship of the grotesque grandiose ideas. That a censorship still exists seems a priori possible, for we see that patients who intellectually and emotionally are less well preserved than our patient still have an extensive insight into the disease. The censorship naturally contrasts with the grandiose complex which completely fills consciousness; it therefore probably acts from the repression by means of hallucinations. This really seems to be the case since at least some observations speak in favor of it. While the patient was telling me what a misfortune it would be for humanity if she as world proprietress should have to die before the payments the "telephone" suddenly said "it would do no harm, they would simply take another world proprietress."

While the patient during the association of the neologism "million Hufeland" was constantly troubled by thought-deprivation, and was unable to elicit anything definite, the "telephone" to the great chagrin of the patient called out "the doctor should not be bothered with such things." At the neologism "Zähringer," when the patient was having some difficulty with the associations, the "telephone" said "she is embarrassed and therefore she can say nothing." During an analysis when the