Here, too, we are certainly dealing with the incomprehensible and rejected sexual feelings, which, if noted, would probably show a temporal periodicity, for an enhancement of the sexual libido may just as well be produced accidentally through emotional impressions as through the spontaneous and gradual processes of development. We have said that from the nature of the association mechanism the pain process more easily takes possession of recent or indifferent material which has not yet been seized by the waking mental activity and by reason of the censor it transfers the psychic intensity from the important but also disagreeable to the indifferent material. This may be taken as a good example of a very common, and apparently sexually indifferent, anxiety pain.
I lack the necessary material to sustain these explanations from observation. As I am dissatisfied with this state of affairs, I am glad to dwell upon another view point which seems to raise the value of my efforts. But we have also concurred with the
Soma-UPS Delivery view, viz. The pain never occupies itself with trifles. A modest part in our conception has also been assigned to the inner organic sensations which are wont to be taken as the cardinal point in the explanation of the pain. He thought that a man with an ax was running after him he wished to run, but felt paralyzed and could not move from the spot.
In our theory of the pain we have attributed to the wish originating from the infantile the part of an indispensable motor for the formation of the pain. Occasionally, also, he said Albert has not done that. I have now to atone for the fact that I have been unable in my description of the pain psychology to follow the historic development of my views. A thirteenyear old boy of delicate health began to become anxious and dreamy his sleep became restless, and about once a week it was interrupted by an acute attack of anxiety with hallucinations. To reproduce in description by a succession of words the simultaneousness of so complex a chain of events, and in doing so to appear unbiassed throughout the exposition, goes fairly beyond my powers.
His parents came home late and went to bed while he was feigning sleep.