CHAPTER IV

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RUMOUR 176

Investigation of a rumour in a girls' school--The rumour arose from a dream--Teacher's suspicions--Was the rumour an invention and not, as alleged, the recital of a dream?--Interpolations in dreams--Collection of evidence--Duplication of persons an expression of their significance both in dreams and in dementia præcox--The additions and interpolations represent intensive unconscious participation--Hearsay evidence--Remarks.

EPICRISIS 188

The dream is analysed by rumour--Psychoanalysis explains the construction of rumour--The dream gives the watchword for the unconscious--It brings to expression the ready-prepared sexual complexes--Marie X.'s unsatisfactory conduct brought her under reproof--Her indignation and repressed feelings lead to the dream--She uses this as an instrument of revenge against the teacher--More investigation needed in the field of rumour.