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PARANOID DEMENTIA AS A PARADIGM.
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the above explanation. The transition of the associations to "Russians" is not so remote in spite of the fact that mounted lancers are at present quite an unknown spectacle in Switzerland. The "Russians," especially the Cossacks of Suwarow from the days of the battle of Zürich, 1799, are, however, living figures of popular tradition to which many reminiscences of the older generations are attached. The "battle attack" is probably a synonym for the embrace of the former analysis. The word "hunger" probably conceals the thought of virile activity.

This analysis agrees in contents with the former, only the speech and the figurative symbols are changed.

The analyses thus far occupy themselves with the betrothal, wedding and coitus. The patient has plastically and forcefully elaborated all the details of the wedding celebration; she summarizes it in the expression: "I am the lilac—new—red—sea wonder and the blue." I withhold the representation of this dream formation, not wishing to indefinitely increase this already extensive analysis (the wedding celebration alone fills ten closely-written folios). What we lack now is the result of this sexual union, the children. These, however, appear in the following analysis.

6. Bazaar: double bazaar—I affirm two bazaars—W. bazaar in the Bahnhof St. and one on the strand—ladies work—the most wonderful tinware, glassware, all jewels, toilet soaps, purses, etc. Once in my dream Mr. Zuppinger shot out of my mouth as a little doll boy—he had no uniform but the others had military uniforms—these are Czars, the sons of the highest in Russia, represented as Czars, therefore the word bazaar—bazaars are extraordinarily good business—czars are dressed for such business, they have their incomes from these bazaars, because they are the sons of world proprietors and proprietresses—also a little girl jumped out of my mouth, with a little brown dress and a little apron—the little daughter was allotted to me—oh, God, the representation—it is the representation, the end of the insane asylum came out of mouth—the little daughter was shot out of the mouth until the end of the insane asylum—it is already slightly paralyzed, sewn together with rags—it belongs to a bazaar—do you know these businesses have a great income, I came first as double, as the only world proprietress, first with