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Hostile impulses against parents (a wish that they should die) are also an integral constituent of neuroses. They come to light consciously as obsessional ideas. In paranoia what is worst in
delusions of persecution (pathological distrust of rulers and monarchs) corresponds to these impulses. They are repressed at times when compassion for the parents is active-at times of their illness or death. On such occasions it is a manifestation of mourning to reproach oneself for their death (what is known as melancholia) or to punish oneself in a hysterical fashion (through the medium of the idea of retribution) with the same states [of illness] that they have had. The identification which occurs here is, as we can see, nothing other than a mode of thinking and does not relieve us of the necessity for looking for the motive.1
It seems as though this death-wish is directed in sons against their father and in daughters against their mother.2 A maid-servant makes a transference from this by wishing her mistress to die so that her master can marry her. (Cf. Lisl's dream about Martha and me.)3
Memories appear to bifurcate: one part of them is put aside and replaced by phantasies; another, more accessible, part seems to lead directly to impulses. Is it possible that later on impulses can also proceed from phantasies?
Similarly obsessional neurosis and paranoia would proceed ex aequo [on equal terms] from hysteria, which would explain the incompatibility between them.4
Belief (and doubt) is a ph