The best example of this kind was reported to me by a gentleman named Lederer as a personal experience. While on his wedding trip in Venice he came across a man with whom he was but slightly acquainted, and whom he was obliged to introduce to his wife. As he forgot the name of the stranger he got himself out of the embarrassment the first time by mumbling the name unintelligibly. But when he met the man a second time, as is inevitable in Venice, he took him aside and begged him to help him out of the difficulty by telling him his name, which he unfortunately had forgotten. The answer of the stranger pointed to a superior knowledge of human nature: “I readily believe that you did not grasp my name. My name is like yours--Lederer!” One cannot suppress a slight feeling of unpleasantness on discovering his own name in a stranger. I had recently felt it very plainly when I was consulted during my office hours by a man named S. Freud. However, I am assured by one of my own critics that in this respect he behaves in quite the opposite manner. (_f_) The effect of personal relation can be recognized also in the following examples reported by Jung.[6] “Mr. Y. falls in love with a lady who soon thereafter marries Mr. X. In spite of the fact that Mr. Y. was an old acquaintance of Mr. X., and had business relations with him, he repeatedly forgot the name, and on a number of occasions, when wishing to correspond with X., he was obliged to ask other people for his name.” However, the motivation for the forgetting is more evident in this case than in the preceding ones, which were under the constellation of the personal reference. Here the forgetting is manifestly a direct result of the dislike of Y. for the happy rival; he does not wish to know anything about him. (_g_) The following case, reported by Ferenczi, the analysis of which is especially instructive through the explanation of the substitutive thoughts (like _Botticelli-Boltraffio_ to _Signorelli_), shows in a somewhat different way how self-reference leads to the forgetting of a name:-- “A lady who heard something about psychoanalysis could not recall the name of the psychiatrist, Young (Jung). “Instead, the following names occurred to her: Kl. (a name)--Wilde--Nietzsche--Hauptmann. “I did not tell her the name, and requested her to repeat her free associations to every thought.