ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows that two reasons for describing the analytical solution of one of her hallucinatory periods. The first is that this solution was, so to speak, the turning-point of the treatment; the other that it brought to light interesting clinical material relating to the problem of reality testing. The uncertainty arising from this dilemma was extremely exhausting, and she could hardly bear it any longer; she was in a continuously increasing panic, deeply confused in her mental activities. Doughnut' is food, in Hungarian 'etel'; and in Hungarian 'etel-ital', literally 'food and drink', is a much-used standard phrase like the English 'meat and drink', or the German 'Speis und Trank'. When her husband was sent to Russia, they agreed that in case something went wrong she should immediately ask the Italian Legation for intervention. In the meantime her husband had bought a pair for himself, and unfortunately got another pair from someone else for Christmas.
