Psychopathology of Everyday Life
analysis could not recall the name of the psychiatrist, Young (Jung).
“Instead, the following names occurred to her: Kl. (a name)—Wilde—Nietzsche—Hauptmann.
“I did not tell her the name, and requested her to repeat her free associations to every thought.
“To Kl. she at once thought of Mrs. Kl., that she was an embellished and affected person who looked very well for her age. ‘She does not age.’ As a general and principal conception of Wilde and Nietzsche, she gave the association ‘mental disease.’ She then added jocosely: ‘The Freudians will continue looking for the causes of mental diseases until they themselves become insane.’ She continued: ‘I cannot bear Wilde and Nietzsche. I do not understand them. I hear that they were both homosexual. Wilde has occupied himself with young people’ (although she uttered in this sentence the correct name she still could not remember it).
“To Hauptmann she associated the words hall and youth, and only after I called her attention to the word youth did she become aware that she was looking for the name Young (Jung).”
It is clear that this lady, who had lost her husband at the age of thirty-nine, and had no prospect of marrying a second time, had cause enough to avoid reminiscences recalling youth or old age. The remarkable thing is that the concealing thoughts of the desired name came to the surface
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