Internationale Zeitschrift für Ärztliche Psychoanalyse

Budapest, March 23, 1914

Dear Professor,

In a big hurry. I just want to tell you that right on the first day I owe the solution to a year-and-a-half-long resistance to your explanation yesterday1 of the “masculine protest.” A patient (engineer) has always been terrified of, among other things, tearing and macerating pieces of meat. (I always interpreted this correctly as castration anxiety.) Today, among other things, he had the following thoughts: 1.) A tooth, broken in half; terribly painful. 2.) Three iron bars, held together by rings and broken in two. 3.) A cooked sausage. When I told him that he is sorry about his penis, i.e., about his