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THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DEMENTIA PRÆCOX.
29.
To promenade
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1.
That means also for me an extraordinary pleasure, when I can go out.
(Patient is allowed to go out once a week.)
39.
To cook
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1.
To roast
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6.8″
40.
Water
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1.
Lemonade
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5.0″
41.
To dance
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1.
Prim, I am Mr. Prim
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10.0″

Here again a delusion is set free. Patient states that "Mr. Prim is the first dancing teacher in Zurich." This name and person are totally unknown to me; we probably deal here with a delusional formation.

42.
Cat
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1.
Slandering
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21.8″

This far-fetched complex-constellation is explained by patient as follows: "I was once slandered by somebody because I always carried cats in my arms." It is not clear whether the slandering came from voices or from persons. The carrying about of cats is not rare as a symptomatic action in erotic complexes (child!).

43.
Heart
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1.
Reason
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11.2″
44.
To swim
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1.
I was once almost drowned, to drown.

This is a recollection of a complex from the beginning of the disease, when there were many ideas of suicide.

45.
Emperor
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Empress
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3.0″
46.
Moon
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Sun
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2.8″

"I am Empress Alexander" is one of her stereotypies.

47.
To strike
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1.
Is always a proof of rudeness
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15.8″

This refers to occasional attacks by other patients.

48.
Star
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1.
Should one say, sun, moon, and all fixed stars?

The complex constellated here is a delusion which is expressed stereotypically as "I am Forel and Forel's star." [Forel—former Superintendent of Burghölzli.]

49.
To stroke
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1.
A word which can not be so well written: to caress.

Here, too, an erotic complex is constellated, as probably also in the above association. Both reactions came hesitatingly, with introductions, showing a feeling of uncertainty, a "sentiment