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PARANOID DEMENTIA AS A PARADIGM.
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d'incomplétude." This is probably due to a co-excitement of a strong unconscious complex, on account of which the conscious idea loses in clearness and completeness.

50.
Splendid
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1.
Annoyance
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6.6″

Again a far-fetched complex-constellation. Patient says one speaks though about unpleasant things, "that is really splendid." She finds it especially annoying that her fortune which she has long ago "established" is kept away from her "so imposingly."

51.
Child
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1.
Parents
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6.2″
52.
Sweet
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1.
I have to experience the bitterness of life
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11.0″
53.
To ride
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1.
I must now be satisfied with driving
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8.8″

Here patient again reacts egocentrically, that is, her complexes employ every available occasion to manifest themselves. R. 53 "to ride" also refers to a stereotypically expressed delusion. "I should have been horseback riding since 1866." This idea belongs to the grandiose delusions.

54.
Friendly
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1.
Yes, friendly, lovely
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12.8″

This refers to a stereotypically expressed grandiose delusion, "I am royally lovely, so lovely and so pure."

55.
Crown
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2.
Villa
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17.4″

Patient explains this as follows: "The villa S. in T. is my crown. I affirm it as my property." The villa S. is one of the finest villas in the suburbs of Zurich.

56.
Rough
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1.
Is mostly rude
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5.6″

An assimilation of the complex of rudeness (R. 47).

57.
Ill
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2.
Ill is poverty

Patient explains that "poverty grows out of illness."

58.
Victim
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2.
Cruelty
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7.8″

As patient explains she is the "victim of unheard of cruelties."

59.
Marriage
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1.
State affairs
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7.8″

The marriage is an affair of state insofar as concerns her marriage, for she is the "world proprietress."

60.
Grandmother
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1.
Is happiness
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6.6″