Evidence is presented to justify the opinion that Abraham Lincoln unconsciously wished to be assassinated. The people around Lincoln were not surprised at the news of his assassination; they had warned him repeatedly about the utterly careless manner in which he exposed himself to physical attack. Several times Lincoln publicly expressed the belief that he would not live through his

second term as president. Wilson quotes a long dream whose manifest content demonstrates Lincoln's unconscious exhibitionistic and self-destructive impulses. This dream occurred shortly before his death and was regarded by Lincoln as a prophetic dream. Several instances are cited in which Lincoln refers to death as a release from the torment of living.