Chapter IV: A Contribution to the Psychology of Rumour 176

Investigation of a rumour in a girls' school--The rumour arose
from a dream--Teacher's suspicions--Was the rumour an invention
and not, as alleged, the recital of a dream?--Interpolations
in dreams--Collection of evidence--Duplication of persons an
expression of their significance both in dreams and in dementia
præcox--The additions and interpolations represent intensive
unconscious participation--Hearsay evidence--Remarks.

EPICRISIS 188

The dream is analysed by rumour--Psychoanalysis explains the
construction of rumour--The dream gives the watchword for the
unconscious--It brings to expression the ready-prepared sexual
complexes--Marie X.'s unsatisfactory conduct brought her under
reproof--Her indignation and repressed feelings lead to the
dream--She uses this as an instrument of revenge against the
teacher--More investigation needed in the field of rumour.

CHAPTER V

ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NUMBER-DREAMS 191

Symbolism of numbers has acquired fresh interest from
Freud's investigations--Example of number dream of middle-aged
man--How the number originates--A second dream also contains a
number--Analysis--The wife's dream "Luke 137"--This dream is an
example of cryptomnesia.

CHAPTER VI

A CRITICISM OF BLEULER'S "THEORY OF SCHIZOPHRENIC NEGATIVISM" 200

Bleuler's concept of ambivalency and ambitendency--Every
tendency balanced by its opposite--Schizophrenic
negativism--Bleuler's summary of its causes--The painfulness of
the complex necessitates a censorship of its expression--Thought
disturbance the result of a complex--Thought pressure due to
schizophrenic introversion--Resistance springs from peculiar sexual
development--Schizophrenia shows a preponderance of introversion
mechanisms--The value of the complex theory concept.