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December 18, 1951. ST. PAUL AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY: A PSYCHOANALYTIC AND HISTORICAL STUDY. Sidney Tarachow, M.D.
Tarachow pointed out that little is known of Paul's early development or family. Physically small and probably deformed, he was a celibate with no real relationship to women, and in a constant battle with the demands of the flesh which resemble adolescent struggles with masturbation.
From the history of his life as a missionary and from his writings Tarachow has reconstructed his personality: prior to conversion, a doctrinaire bigot; submissive to the church; the first-named persecutor of the Christians, who completely suppressed his aggression against the father, brooking no deviation in