If care is taken not to overlook gastric contents, which are apt to be screened by oral and excremental ones, a rich symptomatology of complicated ulcer is often found in the analysis of children, usually, however, with no demonstrable organic lesion. This situation of predisposition to peptic ulcer is brought about by failure in the oedipal situation followed by masochistic oral-digestive regression, reactivating a cruel, predominantly maternal, superego that attacks the child's feeding instincts.