[3] I introduce as the most important sources Peter Jessen: “Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Begründung der Psychologie,” Berlin, 1855 (with many examples); Heinrich Spitta: “Die Schlaf- und Traumzustände der menschlichen Seele,” 2d edition, 1882 (with abundant casuistic and literature); finally based upon these L. Löwenfeld: “Somnambulismus und Spiritismus,” Grenzfragen des Nerven- und Seelenlebens, Vol. I, 1900.
[4] The text of Bellini's “Nachtwandlerin” could hardly be called literature, nor Theodor Mundt's fabulous novel, “Lebensmagie, Wirklichkeit und Traum.” The latter I will mention later in the text.
[5] This homosexual tendency was first directed toward her own mother in childhood and early puberty.
[6] “Über den sado-masochistischen Komplex,” Jahrb. f. psychoanal. Forsch., Vol. 5, pp. 224–230.
[8] I have here given word for word what the patient wrote down. When I then pointed out to her the evident contradiction, that she had misplaced something into the seventeenth year, which according to an earlier statement must have happened in the eleventh year, she answered that here was in fact an earlier mistake, since her brother-in-law Emil had first taken breakfast with her mother in her seventeenth year. The facts were these: She had walked a great deal in her sleep from her eleventh to her seventeenth year, for her mother had always suffered from hemoptysis, with occasional intermissions, and on this account had a nurse at various times. She had in fact at eleven years done everything which she has described above, only the making of the coffee for the brother-in-law happened in the seventeenth year. Besides, all the other actions performed in sleep are correctly given. On being questioned, she stated that her menses occurred first between her thirteenth and fourteenth years and at the time of menstruation particularly she had walked a great deal. She was always very much excited sexually before her period, slept very restlessly and had always at that time arisen in her sleep. Blood always excited her excessively sexually, as has been already mentioned in the text. I will add just at this place that her exact dates, when an event appears in the very first years of her life, must be taken with a grain of salt, because falsification of memory is always to be found there. This, however, is not of great importance because the facts are authentically correct and at least agree approximately with the times specified, as I have convinced myself through questioning her relatives.
[9] E. g., “A monk of a melancholy disposition and known to be a sleep walker, betook himself one evening to the room of his prior, who, as it happened, had not yet gone to bed, but sat at his work table. The monk had a knife in his hand, his eyes were open and without swerving he made straight at the bed of the prior without looking at him or the light burning in the room. He felt in the bed for the body, stuck it three times with the knife and turned with a satisfied countenance back to his cell, the door of which he closed. In the morning he told the horrified prior that he had dreamed that the latter had murdered his mother, and that her bloody shadow had appeared to him to summon him to avenge her. He had hastened to arise and had stabbed the prior. Immediately he had awakened in his bed, bathed in perspiration, and had thanked God that it had been only a frightful dream. The monk was horrified when the prior told him what had taken place.” The following cases besides: “A shoemaker's apprentice, tortured for a long time with jealousy, climbed in his sleep over the roof to his beloved, stabbed her and went back to bed.” Another, “A sleep walker in Naples stabbed his wife because of an idea in a dream that she was untrue to him!” We may conclude, on the ground of our analytical experiences, that the untrue maiden always represents the mother of the sleep walker, who has been faithless to him with the father. The hatred thoughts toward this rival lead in the first dream to the reverse Hamlet motive, the mother has demanded that the son take revenge upon the father. Finally Krafft-Ebing gives still other cases: “A pastor, who would have been removed from his post on account of the pregnancy of a girl, was acquitted because he proved that he was a sleep walker and made it appear that in this condition (?) the forbidden relationship had taken place.” Also, “The case of a girl who was sexually mishandled in the somnambulistic condition. Only in the attacks had she consciousness of having submitted to sexual relations, but not in the free intervals.”
[10] One thinks of the halo in religious pictures, which indeed is nothing else than the shining of the light about the head.
[11] Cf. with this Krafft-Ebing, [l. c.] “Slight convulsions or cataleptic muscular rigidity sometimes precede the attacks.”