Psychosexual relationship of child to father--Fürst's experiments quoted--The association experiment typical for man's psychological life--Adaptation to father--Father-complex productive of neurosis--Father-complex in man with masochistic and homosexual trends--Peasant woman "her father's favourite," tragic effect of the unconscious constellation--Case of eight-year-old boy with enuresis--Enuresis a sexual surrogate--Importance of infantile sexuality in life--Hence necessity for psychoanalytic investigation--The Jewish religion and the father-complex--Parental power guides the child like a higher controlling fate--The conflict for the development of the individual--Father-complex in Book of Tobias. 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. CHAPTER VII PSYCHOANALYSIS 206