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The Patient: A young adult male, intelligence rating five points above the average for Harvard students on the Army Alpha scale. He had signally failed twice in college entrance examinations. Had never been able to develop normal friendships with his peers. After analysis he has entered a large university and appears to be making an excellent adjustment to college life.
During analysis he exhibited much less than the usual resistance to introspection and daydreaming aloud and without guidance from me he carried this to deeper and deeper levels disclosing thereby earlier and earlier memories. By this means he answered his own questions as to the origin of his drives. As a result the material obtained is more nearly free from the possibility of suggestion on my part than usual. The fact that before his analysis I had a different, though hazy, idea of the origin of the trend under discussion seems to prove this.
In his first interview he stated that he was greatly bothered by thoughts of both illegitimate heterosexual and homosexual relations. Later he admitted that he daydreamed of having both but had never done so. I suggested that he imagine himself as having the same feelings and becoming younger and younger, telling me, as he went back, the circumstances that he might recall. (No recommendation of this technic is intended.) Following this method, he rapidly brought up a line of memories of events and fantasies extending to the weaning period. Such of these as seem necessary to indicate the line of the development of the trend will be given, not in the order in which he gave them, but in their approximate order of development.
For those who will doubt whether these are actual memories I will state that while there is no way of proving this, there was every indication that they were. There appeared to be complete confirmation of a memory which was still earlier but which had no connection with these trends. He told me one day that the smell of rubber was nauseating to