nothing but complex-expressions) with marked want of emotion. If we really dealt here with a true want of emotion, it would at first sight seem contradictory that just here, where we always have the impression of an emotional defect, there should be signs of a vivid feeling tone. From numerous examinations in the normal and hysterical we know that these signs in experiments always, as it were, show the appearance of a complex, we therefore retain the same view in dementia præcox. The consequence of this supposition is that most of the above reactions are so to say constellated by complexes. That this is the case in R. 1 we have already seen. R. 2 "father—yes, mother" is designated by the complex-indicator "yes."[1] As we shall see later the parents play a certain rôle in the delusions of the patient. R. 3 "table—sofa" seems objective and has therefore a short reaction time. R. 4 "head—yes, irretrievable" has on the other hand again a very long reaction time. Patient refers "head" to herself and predicates this part of the body as "irretrievable," an expression which she otherwise applies to her own person and usually in the stereotyped formula, "I am double polytechnic irretrievable." R. 5 "ink—nut water" is a very far-fetched mediate complex-constellation. The patient, among other things, desires nut water. R. 6 "needle—thread" excites her trade-complex—she is a tailoress. R. 7 "bread—butter" is objective. R. 8 "lamp—electricity, petroleum" also belongs to her desiderata. R. 9 "tree—fruit" she likewise desires, she frequently complains about getting too little fruit. Occasionally she also dreams of a large gift of fruit. R. 10 "mountain—valleys." Mountain plays a great part in her delusions. She expresses it as follows in her stereotyped manner: "I created the highest pinnacle, Finsteraarhorn " [mountain near the Jungfrau], etc. R. 11 "hair—hat" should also contain a self-reference, but it has not been confirmed. We see then that by far most of the above associations are constellated by complexes, hence the objective signs of the feeling-tone are readily understood. What is not, however, understood at first sight is the unusually large number of complex-constellations. We see such an excess among the normal and hysterical only when the complex is extra-
- ↑ "Yes" as a complex indicator we found in an epileptic. See Beitrag III, Diagnost. Assoz.-Stud.
