Two cases are presented of analyses of adult males in which testicular material was especially prominent. One man suffered from marked testicular retractions in childhood, which continued into adult life. This patient showed a large number of references to testicular movements in his verbal metaphors, etc. The second man, who only recalled minimal retractions in childhood, but who had undergone unnecessary surgery in latency for a hydrocoele, showed no such intensification of movement images.

The two men showed pathogenic familial constellations, of the type described by Blos in his paper on cryptorchism, with castrating mothers and passive fathers who were ambivalent to their sons' masculinity. The testicular literature was reviewed, and most cases seem to have similarly pathologic family structures. The evidence, however, is not sufficiently compelling, at this time, to validate Blos's hypothesis that testicular defects are only pathogenic in the context of such familial constellations.