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. We found this holding true for the pain content, which gives the pain thought its changed expression by means of disfigurement.
He soon heard panting and other noises that appeared strange to him, and he could also make out the position of his parents in bed. 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. The interpretation follows in such a manner that the perceived object is rendered harmless as a sleep disturber and becomes available for the wishfulfillment. That the pain continues the impulses and interests of the waking state has been quite
Soma (UPS) confirmed through the discovery of the latent thoughts of the pain. 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. These thoughts concern themselves only with things that seem important and of momentous interest to us. In particular, he recalled an occasion when he struck his brother on the head with his boot until he bled, whereupon his mother remarked I fear he will kill him some day. 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.
The pain never occupies itself with trifles.
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.
I am well aware of all the inconveniences arising for the reader from this difficulty, but I know of no way to avoid them.