as dreams;
for instance, one night she woke up screaming, said that
she had dreamed that her mother was dead and her sister
dying. That, in the psychoanalytic sense, this represented
a removal of a rival, making union with her father easy,
appeared in the statement that her father was dead but that
she had dreamed he had come to life again for some one
else. When asked what she meant, the question had to be
repeated several times, then she said "My mother died, my
father and mother had a quarrel." There is more than a
suggestion here of a difference in the significance of
death, in so far as it concerned the two parents. The
mother dies and remains dead, that is, she is gotten rid
of. The father dies but takes on a spiritual existence and
comes to life again, a frequent method in psychoses for
legitimizing the idea of union with the parent by
elimination of the grossly physical.

There were strikingly few allusions to the plainly sexual.
She spoke of being married to the doctor, and even went so
far as to say that they belonged together in bed. On
another occasion she called him "darling." Once she
reported that it was said that she was going to have babies
and babies and babies. These references were, however,
quite isolated, so that the erotic formed a very small part
of her productions.

Delusions of death, we have seen, are the most constant
content of true stupors. In this case they were present but
distinctly in the background. She spoke quite frequently of
being in Heaven. She also talked of being crucified. Once
she said "I died but I came back again." This last
utterance was rather significant in that frankly accepted
ideas of death were unusual; for instance, she would say
sometimes, "I think I am in Heaven, again not. It confuses
me, but I know I am in Heaven."

In general, then, her ideas were, on the whole, not at all
typical of stupor but much more like those met with in
other manic-depressive conditions. Correlated with this was
an unusual mood picture. Quietness and apparent apathy of
the patient were interrupted by little bursts of emotion,
and throughout the psychosis there was a coloring of
perplexity. Not only was this last objectively noticeable,
but