The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

Psychoanalytic investigation has shown that in mental patients excessive affection often turns to violent hostility.