- [Footnote: Hysterie und der Dementia praecox," Zentralblatt für Nervenheilkunde
und Psychiatrie, 1908. This author, in support of Freud, defines the chief characteristic of dementia praecox as Autoerotism, which as I have asserted is only one of the results of Introversion.](mind) imparts movement, as if by a blast of wind, to the dead primal power (Urpotenz) of matter. There is naturally no mention of sound. This [Greek: nou~s], which is very similar to the later conception of Philo, the [Greek: lo/gos spermatiko/s] of the Gnostics and the Pauline [Greek: pneu~ma] (spirit) as well as to the [Greek: pneu~ma] of the contemporary Christian theologians, has rather the old mythological significance of the fructifying breath of the winds, which impregnated the mares of Lusitania, and the Egyptian vultures. The animation of Adam and the impregnation of the Mother of God by the [Greek: pneu~ma] are produced in a similar manner. The infantile incest phantasy of one of my patients reads: "the father covered her face with his hands and blew into her open mouth."]
