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Presenter: The patient is a twenty-six-year-old man who has been in analysis with me for six years. He wanted to be analysed by me – not by anybody else. He was worried about his homosexuality.
His father owned a farm of thousands of acres, a large house, and was a very powerful, wealthy man. His mother was born in China, then went to Russia; from there she came to Brazil before she was thirteen. His father met her when she was about fifteen years old. She was described by everyone who knew her as a beautiful girl. She was always afraid that her son would be regarded as Chinese or Russian, not Brazilian.
He said his mother had a very easy delivery when he was born and he was breast-fed. His brother, who was born seven years later, became very ill and could not take the breast. The patient remembered being very anxious about this. He also remembered once trying to kiss his mother when he was eight or nine years old. He kissed her mouth, and she said, “No, you mustn't kiss my lips – that's not allowed.”
He still feels like a father to his brother who once almost fell from an eighth-floor window when trying to cross from one window to another on the outside wall. Five years later, when the patient was under the influence of marijuana, he had been tempted to jump from the window of his home on the tenth floor. But he thought, “I am in analysis – there is hope in my life.”
He has a great friend, a woman, who is an internationally famous painter. His mother is very jealous of this friendship. Once he invited this friend and her husband to stay at his farmhouse. His mother said, “This woman is very interested in you. I don't want you to continue
this friendship – it will lead to scandal – she will leave her husband.” He says his mother has always been jealous of his friends.
When he was only ten years old, he suspected his mother of having a sexual affair with a woman. He became very anxious and started spying on his mother, even in her bedroom.
At about the age of thirteen he