IN all analyses one is sooner or later faced with the question whether one should mention in front of the patient the popular (obscene) designations of the sexual and excremental organs, functions, and material, and get him to utter in an unvarnished, unaltered way the obscene words, phrases, curses, etc., that occur to his mind, or whether one can rest content with allusions to them or with the use of scientific language to denote such matters.

In one of his earlier works Freud called attention to the possibility of finding ways and means to discuss with patients even the most proscribed sexual activities (perversions) without wounding their modesty, and for this purpose he recommended the use of technical medical expressions.

At the beginning of a course of psycho-analytic treatment one avoids unnecessarily provoking resistance on the part of the patient, and in this way