In the particular psychological situation of the dreamer, the allusion to the resurrection presents a delightful meaning as the cure of her husband's impotency. Then the whole problem would be solved. There is no need for me to point out in so many words the numerous wish-fulfilments contained in this material; they are obvious to the reader. The important combination of the symbol "_Luke_ 137" must be conceived as cryptomnesia, since the dreamer is quite unversed in the Bible. Both Flournoy[167] and myself[168] have already drawn attention to the important effects of this phenomenon. So far as one can be humanly certain, the question of any manipulation of the material with intent to deceive does not come into consideration in this case. Those well posted in psychoanalysis will be able to allay any such suspicion simply from the disposition and setting of the material as a whole. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 165: "Zentralblatt für Psychoanalyse," 1911, p. 567. Translator, Dr. M. D. Eder.] [Footnote 166: The husband's principal conflict is a pronounced mother-complex.] [Footnote 167: Flournoy, "Des Indes à la Planète Mars." Idem: "Nouvelles observations sur un cas de somnambulisme," _Arch. de Pyschol._, vol. I.] [Footnote 168: See chapter I, p. 86.] CHAPTER VI A CRITICISM OF BLEULER'S "THEORY OF SCHIZOPHRENIC NEGATIVISM"[169] Bleuler's work contains a noteworthy clinical analysis of "Negativism." Besides giving a very precise and discerning summary of the various manifestations of negativism, the author presents us with a new psychological conception well worthy of attention, viz. the concept of _ambivalency_ and of _ambitendency_, thus formulating the psychological axiom that every tendency is balanced by its opposite tendency (to this must be added that positive action is produced by _a comparatively small leaning to one side of the scale_). Similarly all other tendencies, under the stress of emotions, are balanced by their opposites--thus giving an _ambivalent_ character to their expression. This theory rests on clinical observation of katatonic negativism, which more than proves the existence of contrasting tendencies and values. These facts are well known to psychoanalysis, where they are summed up under the concept of resistance. But this must not be taken as meaning that every positive psychic action simply calls up its opposite. One may easily gain the impression from Bleuler's work that his standpoint is that, _cum grano salis_, the conception or the tendency of the Schizophrenic is always accompanied by its opposite. For instance, Bleuler says:-- 1. "Disposing causes of negativistic phenomena are: the _ambitendency_ by which every impulse is accompanied by its opposite." 2. "_Ambivalency_, which gives two opposed emotional expressions to the same idea, and would regard that idea as positive and negative at the same time."