is a moon- I wouldn't know it was the same paper."
             Here, very clearly, we have a juxtaposition of two dissociated identities, with the change in the color of the wallpaper stressing the shift in both identity and role. Jane's delirium is set off by her constant shifting or playing off of self from one ego to the other. At night a different self emerges and, since the wallpaper is nothing other than a projection of Jane's selves, it becomes feasible that the wallpaper should also change aspect as one Jane is played off against the other. Furthermore, in several cases of the disease which Jane seems to show signs of, the patient loses sight of one personality as the other sets in. Hence it would be logical for Jane not to recognise the paper since it is a side of her which becomes disconnected from her conscious mind as soon as the transformation has taken place. One of Freud's theories in psychoanalysis is very explicit about this dissociation. Freud, for instance, claims that systems of thought can be split off from each other and congeal into a secondary personality that is unconscious:
             "We have come upon something in the ego itself which is also unconscious, which behaves exactly like the
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