on. In K. we went into the street. The teacher met his friend who invited us to the wedding. We went to the Sun and played games. We also danced the polonaise; now I don’t remember exactly. Then we went for a honeymoon journey to Andermatt. The teacher had no money with him, and stole some chestnuts in Andermatt. The teacher said, “I am so glad that I can travel with my two pupils.” Then there is something improper which I will not write. The dream is now finished.
Remarks.—The undressing together now takes place in the narrow space of the dressing-room at the baths. The want of dress on the ship gives occasion to a further variant. (The old shirt torn in three.) In consequence of great uncertainty the getting up on the teacher is not mentioned. Instead, the two girls get up on two fat men. As “fat” becomes so prominent it should be noted that the teacher is more than a little plump. The setting is thoroughly typical; each one has a teacher. The duplication or multiplication of the persons is an expression of their significance, i.e. of the stored-up libido.[1] (Compare the duplication of the attribute in dementia praecox in my “Psychology of Dementia Praecox.”) In cults and mythologies the significance of this duplication is very striking. (Cp. the Trinity and the two mystical formulas of confession: “Isis una quæ es omnia. Hermes omnia solus et ter unus.”) Proverbially we say he eats, drinks, or sleeps “for two.” The multiplication of the personality expresses also an analogy or comparison—my friend has the same “ætiological value” (Freud) as myself. In dementia praecox, or schizophrenia, to use Bleuler’s wider and better term, the multiplication of the personality is mainly the expression of the stored-up libido, for it is invariably the person to whom the patient has transference who is subjected to this multiplication. (“There are two professors N.” “Oh, you are also Dr. J.; this morning another came to see me who called himself Dr. J.”) It seems that, corresponding to the general tendency in schizophrenia, this splitting is an analytic degradation whose
- ↑ This also holds good for any objects that are repeated.
