Let us, however, quote the conclusions drawn by our author. Thus, he related that the devil shouted at him Now we have you, now we have you, and this was followed by an odor of sulphur the fire burned his skin. , that the pain gathers up the indifferent remnants from the day, and that not until it has in some measure withdrawn itself from the waking activity can an important event of the day be taken up by the pain. These thoughts concern themselves only with things that seem important and of momentous interest to us. In connection with the ax he recalled that during that period of his life he once hurt his hand with an ax while chopping wood. , That under the pressure of puberty the temptation to self abuse through the tickling of the genitals was reawakened. The interpretation follows in such a manner that the perceived object is rendered harmless as a sleep disturber and becomes available for the wishfulfillment. We have been forced, however, to take decided exception to two of the views pronounced, viz.


Here, too, we are certainly dealing with the incomprehensible and rejected sexual feelings, Soma: Without Prescription if noted, would probably show a temporal periodicity, for an enhancement of the sexual libido may just as well be produced Soma: Without Prescription through emotional impressions Soma: Without Prescription through the spontaneous and gradual processes of development. 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. Later he avoided undressing, because, as he said, the fire attacked him only when he was undressed. 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. On the other hand, the pediatrists seem to lack the point of view which alone makes comprehensible the whole series of phenomena, on the somatic as well as on the psychic side.
In our theory of Soma (Next Day) pain we have attributed to the wish originating from the infantile the part of an indispensable motor for the formation of the pain. This pain aroused him, terror stricken. , That now, however, a struggle of repression arose in him, suppressing the libido and changing it into fear, which subsequently took the form of the punishments with which he was then threatened. A man twenty seven years old who had been severely ill for a year had had many terrifying dreams between the ages of eleven and thirteen. His parents came home late and went to bed while he was feigning sleep. All manifestations disappeared as a result of a lengthy sojourn in the country, bodily exercise, and the return of physical strength after the termination of the period of puberty. I have explained this fear by the fact that sexual excitement is not mastered by their understanding, and is probably also inacceptable to them because their parents are involved in it.
To illustrate by a comical example how one wearing the blinders of medical mythology may miss the understanding of such cases I will relate a case which I found in a thesis on pavor nocturnus by Debacker,. He subsumed what occurred between his parents under the conception violence and wrestling, and thus reached a sadistic conception of the coitus act, as often happens among children.