(_g_) In discussing her summer plans, a patient said, “I shall remain most of the summer in _Elberlon_.” She noted her mistake, and asked me to analyse it. The associations to _Elberlon_ elicited: seashore on the Jersey coast--summer resort--vacation travelling. This recalled travelling in Europe with her cousin, a topic which we had discussed the day before during the analysis of a dream. The dream dealt with her dislike for this cousin, and she admitted that it was mainly due to the fact that the latter was the favourite of the man whom they met together while travelling abroad. During the dream analysis she could not recall the name of the city in which they met this man, and I did not make any effort at the time to bring it to her consciousness, as we were engrossed in a totally different problem. When asked to focus her attention again on Elberlon and reproduce her associations, she said, “It brings to mind _Elberlawn_--_lawn_--_field_--and _Elberfield_.” _Elberfeld_ was the lost name of the city in Germany. Here the mistake served to bring to consciousness in a concealed manner a memory which was connected with a painful feeling. (_h_) A woman said to me, “If you wish to buy a carpet, go to _Merchant_ (Kaufmann) in _Matthew Street_ (Mathäusgasse).” I repeated, “Then at Matthew’s--I mean at Merchant’s----” It would seem that my repeating of one name in place of the other was simply the result of distraction. The woman’s remark really did distract me, as she turned my attention to something else much more vital to me than carpet. In Matthew Street stands the house in which my wife lived as a bride. The entrance to the house was in another street, and now I noticed that I had forgotten its name and could only recall it through a roundabout method. The name Matthew, which kept my attention, is thus a substitutive name for the forgotten name of the street. It is more suitable than the name Merchant, for Matthew is exclusively the name of a person, while Merchant is not. The forgotten street, too, bears the name of a person: _Radetzky_. (_i_) A patient consulted me for the first time, and from her history it became apparent that the cause of her nervousness was largely an unhappy married life. Without any encouragement she went into details about her marital troubles. She had not lived with her husband for about six months, and she saw him last at the theatre, when she saw the play _Officer 606_. I called her attention to the mistake, and she immediately corrected herself, saying that she meant to say _Officer 666_ (the name of a recent popular play). I decided to find out the reason for the mistake, and as the patient came to me for analytic treatment, I discovered that the immediate cause of the rupture between herself and husband was the disease which is treated by “606.”[19]