1 [First published as “Analyse der Assoziationen eines Epileptikers,” Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie, V (1905):2, 73–90. Republished in Diagnostische Assoziationsstudien, Vol. I, pp. 175–92 (III. Beitrag). Translated by M. D. Eder in Studies in Word-Association, pp. 206–26. See supra, par. 1, n.1.]

2 “L’Allenamento ergografico nei normali e negli Epilettici” (1902).

3 “Über Ermüdungskurven bei Gesunden und bei einigen Neurosen und Psychosen” (1904).

4 Lehrbuch der psychopathologischen Untersuchungsmethoden (1899).

5 Analyse des Vorstellungsmaterials bei epileptischen Schwachsinn (1902).

6 Psychiatrie: Ein Lehrbuch für Studierende und Ärzte (7th edn., 1904), II, p. [626].[The passage is not included in the abstracted translation by Diefendorf (1907).]

7 “The Associations of Imbeciles and Idiots” (1904).

8 “Hebung epileptischer Amnesien durch Hypnose” (1902).

9 “The Associations of Normal Subjects,” supra.

10 [German tragen has both these meanings. All reaction-time data in this paper are in seconds.]

11 See “The Associations of Normal Subjects,” par. 429, supra. This case concerns a love-affair that ended unhappily and, moreover, with distressing circumstances that fully explain the strong affect.

12 Ibid., par. 432.

13 A further reason that, in Bleuler’s view, facilitates the occurrence of sentences in mental defectives is that it is difficult for them not only to understand a word outside the context of a sentence, but even to think words outside a sentence context.

14 See “The Associations of Normal Subjects,” par. 427.

15 Case 13 of Wehrlin’s paper.

16 [German Falle: “fall” was substituted for the correct translation, “trap,” which would not have made sense in this example.]

17 Cf. “The Associations of Normal Subjects,” par. 408 (2).

18 Such reactions differ distinctly from certain reactions that can occasionally be obtained from loquacious imbeciles. I quote the following as examples of this type:

Sunday	consists of a day when one does nothing, when one goes to church
mountain	a high mountain, with houses or without houses
salt	something to salt with. One salts meat
exercise-book	is made of paper. One makes a newspaper of it
ring	on the finger—jewelry—chain
attendant	someone who attends in hospitals, institutions, almshouses
piano	where music is, on the top floor where the organ is, the Misses have played it, next to it (even tells a story of an organ-player)
to swim	in the lake, in the water, in the Rhine, one needs swimming trunks
to cook	necessary for the meal, soup, flour, meat, pots and pans, casserole
star	parts of the sky, system of planets, sun, moon, and stars

In these associations the emphasis and confirmations of the epileptic are absent; they do not express the emotional moment so well. They are more enumerations, which frequently appear like flights of ideas; the train of thought progresses and does not stick anxiously to the stimulus-word.

19 [German Naturalie, which is felt to be a foreign word.]

20 Certain stimulus-words can touch off a feeling-toned complex of ideas that is very important for the individual. This results in certain disturbances of the association which we have described as “complex-characteristics,” such as: abnormally long reaction-times, repetition of the stimulus-word, abnormal wording of the critical or of the following reaction.

21 Intention is in any case a very insidious word for certain people.

22 [fR-T = reaction-time of the following association.]

23 Cf. also Freud’s observations in The Psychopathology of Everyday Life.

24 I find in normal subjects that reactions constellated by a conscious or unconscious complex often show abnormally long reaction-times; in some cases the emotional charge can even involve the following reaction, for which the reaction-time also becomes extended.

25 See Aschaffenburg, “Experimentelle Studien über Assoziationen” (1896 ff.). (For the calculation, see my later paper on reaction-times.)

26 This suggestion would also explain the epileptic perseveration in terms of the abnormality of the feeling-tone. It is, however, not unthinkable that the epileptic idea is abnormal in that it lasts longer than in the normal subject, and therefore produces a number of associations that still belong to the initial idea. Under these circumstances one could certainly expect relatively numerous perseverations of the contents. There is, however, none present in this case.

27 Rr = repetition of the stimulus-word in the following reaction.