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Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 1946, Vol. XV, No. 4, p. 472.
Querulence was found in people with pregenital disturbances who had experienced a number of secondary traumata—nagging, harsh parents who were actually unjust. The sadism belongs to equally varied instinctual sources. Both oral sadism and anal obstinacy and mastery were expressed by some patients. At times querulence is the only means the patients possess for object relations. The mechanism of isolation protects him from yielding to reasonable argument.