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he refused to eat scrambled eggs on account of their resemblance to a child's motioni

Case J. Dislike of the colour combination red and purple.

Association: tiie reddish -purplish aspect of the vulva. The dis- like arose for the first time when he saw a large flaunting flower painted in red and purple, which reminded him of the vulva. The patient is a voyeur, and often compares the spread-out vulva to a flower.

Case 4- Strong aesthetic predilection for stone quatries.

The patient, who is a homosexual, finds that they have some- thing 'manly'. Then he thinks they represent something 'naked', A dream of his reveals the whole truth: he dreams that he sees at one side of a road a stone quarry, and at the other a beautiful nude youth. He does not know which to choose. He himself found the psycho-analytical explanation.

Case s-

A lady finds that she has a strong predilection for certain designs, which on analysis are all found to have this one thing in common, that the several parts of the design are repeated, and are chasing each other, as in a whorl. Thus she divides the small window panes of a large window by imaginary diagonals, and constructs the pattern given below; also rose-designs, arranged within a circle or square have a special attraction for her. On analysis it becomes quite clear to her that not only do the three sections of the rose

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chase each other, but two sections together (as i and 2) suggest the two halves of the nates, and this three times over in the design. The next association is the Manx coat of arms, three legs arranged in a circle and 'kicking' each other: this brings us nearer to the solution. She also remembers the somewhat meaningless geography rhyme 'Long-legged Italy "kicks" little Sicily', for which she had a curious fondness. The kicking and the nates together bring out the person's complex: flagellation ideas. Her earhest recollection is from school when she was about five years old, when she wit- nessed a (male) teacher chastizing another little girl on the bare

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