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I have selected from the recent literature two other cases which illustrate and emphasize still further the relationship between homosexuality (or to use Ferenczi's preferable term, “homoeroticism,” since psychic tendencies may never have come to open expression) and paranoia. Coming from physicians of entirely different nationalities than Freud and Ferenczi who first called attention to this relationship, these observations would seem to have especial weight in confirming the latter's conclusions. Dr. Wulff who contributes the first case, practices in Odessa, Russia; Dr. Morichau-Beauchant is Professor of Internal Medicine in the University at Poitiers, France.
Since both cases are reported as briefly as is consistent with making the facts intelligible, I shall not try to condense them further but give them in the author's own words.
I. Falsehoods in psychonanalysis1 (at the same time, a contribution to the psychology of paranoia), by dr. M. wulff, Odessa, Russia.
May one believe unreservedly every communication, every association of the patient, may not the patient intentionally lead the physician astray, deceiving him with “false associations,” fictitious experiences? Many a patient has probably made the attempt; what he can attain by so doing, the following example may show:
The dream of one of my patients ran as follows: “In my place in the office, two new officials have been engaged and I was told that I was discharged.” The analysis immediately came upon resistance. To the first sentence: “In my place in the office, two new officials have been engaged “no associations would come to the patient. Now ensued the following dialogue: