[22] Like Otto Ludwig himself.
[23] The well-known psychic overcompensation in congenital organic inferiority.
[24] Cf. with this also the interesting passage … “the passionate self accusations, in torturing himself with which he found comfort a short time before.”
[25] Cf. with this especially Ernst Jentsch, “Das Pathologische bei Otto Ludwig,” “Grenzfragen des Nerven- und Seelenlebens,” published by L. Löwenfeld, No. 90.
[26] Cf. here the poet's words: “It is strange that nature is personified for me, that I not only live in her, but as one human being with another, exchanging, not merely receiving, thoughts and feelings, and even so, that different places become as individual to me, distinct from others and, as it were, transformed in consciousness, so that I not only feel that they effect an influence upon me but it seems to me as if I work upon them, and the forms, as they appear to me, show the traces of this influence.” Further: “I … who stood even in a wonderful mutual understanding with mountain and flora, because the kingdom of love was not to be restrained.…”
[27] “Rhapsodies over the Employment of the Psychical Method of Treatment for Mental Disturbances.” See Critical Historical Review by W. A. White, Journ. Nerv. and Ment. Dis., Vol. 43, No. 1. [Tr.]
[28] It is significant to compare here the Consul Brutus, who permitted the execution of his sons.
[29] Otto Rank, “Das Inzest-Motiv in Dichtung und Sage,” 1912, Franz Deuticke.
[30] “Heinrich von Kleist. Eine pathographisch-psychologische Studie,” 1910, J. F. Bergmann.