[Footnote 10: “Enquête sur les premiers souvenirs de l’enfance,” _L’Année psychologique_, iii., 1897.] [Footnote 11: “Study of Early Memories,” _Psychological Review_, 1901.] [Footnote 12: I assert this as a result of certain investigations made by myself.] [Footnote 13: The examples are given by the editor.] [Footnote 14: Those who are interested are referred to pp. 62, 73, and 97 of the author’s work.] [Footnote 15: _Neue Freie Presse_, August 23, 1900: “Wie man sich versprechen kann.”] [Footnote 16: _Völker psychologie_, vol. i., pt. i., p. 371, etc., 1900.] [Footnote 17: Italics are mine.] [Footnote 18: It turned out that she was under the influence of unconscious thoughts concerning pregnancy and prevention of conception. With the words “shut up like a pocket knife,” which she uttered consciously as a complaint, she meant to describe the position of the child in the womb. The word “earnest” in my remark recalled to her the name (S. Ernst) of the well-known Vienna business firm in Kärthner Strasse, which used to advertise the sale of articles for the prevention of conception.] [Footnote 19: Similar mistakes dealing with _Officer 666_ were recently reported to me by other psycho-analysts.] [Footnote 20: It may be observed that aristocrats in particular very frequently distort the names of the physicians they consult, from which we may conclude that inwardly they slight them, in spite of the politeness with which they are wont to greet them. I shall cite here some excellent observations concerning the forgetting of names from the works of Professor E. Jones, of Toronto: _Papers on Psycho-analysis_, chap. iii. p. 49:--