There is still another special interest for us in considering the faulty, chance, and symptomatic actions in the light of this last analogy. If we compare them to the function of the psychoneuroses and the neurotic symptoms, two frequently recurring statements gain in sense and support--namely, that the border-line between the nervous, normal, and abnormal states is indistinct, and that we are all slightly nervous. Regardless of all medical experience, one may construe various types of such barely suggested nervousness, the _formes frustes_ of the neuroses. There may be cases in which only a few symptoms appear, or they may manifest themselves rarely or in mild forms; the extenuation may be transferred to the number, intensity, or to the temporal outbreak of the morbid manifestation. It may also happen that just this type, which forms the most frequent transition between health and disease, may never be discovered. The transition type, whose morbid manifestations come in the form of faulty and symptomatic actions, is characterized by the fact that the symptoms are transformed to the least important psychic activities, while everything that can lay claim to a higher psychic value remains free from disturbance. When the symptoms are disposed of in a reverse manner--that is, when they appear in the most important individual and social activities in a manner to disturb the functions of nourishment and sexual relations, professional and social life--such disposition is found in the severe cases of neuroses, and is perhaps more characteristic of the latter than the multiformity or vividness of the morbid manifestations. But the common character of the mildest as well as the severest cases, to which the faulty and chance actions contribute, lies _in the ability to refer the phenomena to unwelcome, repressed, psychic material, which, though pushed away from consciousness, is nevertheless not robbed of all capacity to express itself_. INDEX Actions-- Accidental, 192 Chance, 215 Symbolic, 210 Symptomatic, 178, 215, 235 Collection of, 238 Examples, 216, 217 Grouping of, 219 Adler, 283, 287 Amnesia, 139 Infantile, 62 Temporary, 35 Analysis of-- Aliquis, 18 Castelvetrano, 50 Ode to Apollo, 29 Signorelli, 4 Young, 44 Anticipations, 72 Association, 11 Auditifs, 63 Awkwardness, accidental, 209 Bed-wetting, 150 Behaviour of paranoiacs, 304 Bernheim, 161 Bleuler, 38, 120, 303, 319 Blood miracle, 20 Blunders, speech, 74 Boileau, quoted from, 114 Brantôme, 93 Breaking of objects, 184, 186, 187, 189 Brill, 19, 29, 32, 101, 102, 103, 130, 147, 169, 170, 197, 241, 249, 258, 293, 316 Chance, 277 Chance numbers, 282, 283 Charcot, 63, 157 Child, intellectual accomplishments of, 62 Childhood activities, trace of, 62 Combined faulty acts, 265 Examples of, 266, 267