* “And what do I say to him? Mostly his own name, the two syllables whichare of the utmost personal interest because they refer to himself… I rouse and stimulate his sense of his own ego by impressing upon him—varying my tone and emphasis—that he is Bashan and that Bashan is his name. By continuing this for a while I can actually produce in him a state of ecstasy, an intoxication with his own identity.…” (p. 461).