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Remarks on a Case with Griselda Phantasies. dr. james J. putnam.
The Significance of the Grandfather for the Fate of the Individual. prof. ernest jones.
Some Remarks on the Role of the Grandparents in the Psychology of the Neuroses. dr. karl abraham.
The Grandfather Complex. dr. S. ferenczi.
Reduction of the Motives of Repression through Recompense. dr. victor task.
A Little Human Rooster. dr. S. ferenczi.
1A Case with Griselda Phantasies.—The patient was a man (aet. 55) of good family and belonging to the best society; a well-educated, unselfish, vigorous man, with unusually good family traditions. His principal trouble was a peculiar estrangement—coupled with a tender affection—existing between himself and his 18-year-old daughter. He had gone abroad with his daughter with the hope that with attentive care he could recover his health. He was constantly so very irritable and depressed that he could neither make her happy nor win her confidence. Till he returned home the patient regarded himself as responsible for this mutual mistrust. As, however, his daughter grew to womanhood and could dispense with his care, he gave way to a jealousy of her interests, and blamed her for personal faults and shortcomings. His deeply felt love struggled with a strong feeling bordering on hatred. This feeling drove him to wish for her, in his thoughts, an insignificant but yet actual pain. This wish to punish his only and deeply loved daughter originated in two motives which were gradually discovered in the course of the analysis. On the one hand the patient sought to play with the idea of injury and so enhance his narcissistic nature which was already