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My theoretical propositions for an understanding of the psychology of dementia præcox are in reality almost entirely exhausted in the contents of the first chapter, for Freud in his works on hysteria, imperative neuroses and dreams has, after all, given all essentials. Nevertheless our ideas gained on an experimental basis differ somewhat from those of Freud. Perhaps my conception of the emotional complex even oversteps the limits of Freud's views.

The essential basis of our personality is affectivity. Thought and action are only, as it were, symptoms of affectivity. The elements of our psychic life, sensations, ideas and emotions are given to consciousness in the form of certain entities, which can in a manner be compared to a molecule, if one may venture upon an analogy with chemistry.

To illustrate: I meet on the street an old comrade and