t, though there may be a
good deal of "push" or impulsiveness.

The case of Charlotte W. (Case 12) is a complicated one, for she had
short stupor periods with inactivity, catalepsy, resistiveness, etc.,
which were interrupted with freer spells. A careful analysis of her
history has been instructive and justifies a detailed and lengthy
discussion. For the purpose in hand it is necessary to separate the
ideas which she expressed only in the freer periods (during which some
affect was at times seen) into those which referred retrospectively to
the stupor phase and those which referred to the freer periods
themselves.

We find that the time during which more marked stupor symptoms appeared
may be divided into two subperiods. This is not possible in regard to
the manifestations belonging to the general reaction, which seem to have
undergone no decided change, but only in regard to the form of the
delusions. In this we find there was a first phase in which ideas of
death and Heaven (and crucifixion) occurred, and a second phase in which
ideas were present which belonged essentially to the motif of rebirth
but which were also associated with ideas of Heaven.

About the first subperiod she said: "I was mesmerized," or "I thought I
was dead," or "God told me I must die on the cross as He did," or "I
went to Heaven in spirit." About the second subperiod she said
retrospectively: "We were on a ship and we were 'most drowned." "It was
like water, I was going down, down." She said she saw the people of the
hospital and "it was all full of water"; or again, "I went under the
ground and it was full of water and every one got drowned and a sharp
thing struck me"; or "I was out on a ship and I went down in a coffin."
She claimed she put up her arms to save the ship. Again she spoke of
having gone into a dark hole. She also said: "One day I was in a
coffin--that was the day I went to Heaven." "They used to be coming up
and down, that was the day I was coming up in a ship or going down." And
when shown her picture in a cataleptic attitude, she said: "That must
have been when I went to Heaven--everything seemed strange, things
seemed to go up and down--I guess that was the day I thought I was on
the ship." Finally she also said: "Once I heard beautiful music--I was
waiting for the last trumpet--I was afraid to move."

We see, therefore, that most of the ideas which she thus spoke of
retrospectively as having been in her mind during thi