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(1925). International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, 6:331

Clinical: A. J. Westerman Holstijn. Retentio Urinæ. Internationale Zeitschrift für Psychoanalyse, 1924, Bd. X, S. 295.

James Glover

This is an account of some dreams from the analysis of a female patient aged forty-seven suffering from retentio urinæ, ischuria-paradoxa and constipation of eight years' standing. It transpired from association to dreams that she could endure coitus only during pregnancy. There was a strong libidinal fixation to her father which had evidently been followed by a homosexual fixation to her mother.

She had had enuresis as a child and a bladder inflammation had been cured by her mother rubbing her with oil.

There was a history of later wetting necessitating the wearing of napkins. Her condition was made worse by catheterization and lavage and she had several attacks. Her constipation was connected with unconscious phantasies of coitus a-tergo and coprophilic tendencies. Psycho-analysis caused circum-anal and anal anæsthesia to disappear. Retention of urine was equated with pregnancy.

Her menses, which had not appeared for eight years, reappeared after psycho-analysis for a short time before the climacteric. She could not transfer libido to her husband, and unconsciously wished to be made pregnant by her father and to have her daughter back in her abdomen, these situations being symbolized in her symptoms.

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Article Citation

Glover, J. (1925). Clinical. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., 6:331