Postencephalitic respiratory disorders : review of syndromy, case reports, physiopathology, psychopathology and therapy / by Smith Ely Jelliffe.

  • Smith Ely Jelliffe
Date:
1927
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Credit: Postencephalitic respiratory disorders : review of syndromy, case reports, physiopathology, psychopathology and therapy / by Smith Ely Jelliffe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and, as in the compulsive neurotic, there is an increase of impulse in the direction towards the death wish but held under repression, hence unexpressed, save through some ceremonial, i.e., symptom. Further discussion of the dream in Case I brought out the diffi¬ culties he had had at school after his delirium and after the summer vacation when he tried to go back to school. Further dream analyses were quite definite in establishing a “ transference.” The details are omitted here since they deal with the general situations of psycho¬ analytic technic which have no particular relevancy in this com¬ munication. Attention may be called to a very interesting dream of January 7, 1925, in which the CEdipus situation was brought up. “ I was with another fellozv•—he lives here in New York (my old friend Jerry). First he said let’s go to a $1.00 house. No, 1 said let’s go to a cheaper one, a 50 ct. one. So zve zvent. At the door there was a peculiar device to open the turnstile type of door; a device like a dial telephone disc, yet it zvas vase shape in general proportions. We turned it, a bell rang and then, zve entered by a side entrance. The madame of the house zvas my aunt, and there were tzvo girls in their undergarments, two beds. Jerry was all there as he took the lefthand girl. It took him some minutes and he puffed and grunted and everything (just like I do). I did not do anything. We paid our 50 cents and got out.” For anyone who has had but slight analytic experience, i.e., one who has not read about it only in books, but has actually tried to analyze a patient, this dream scarcely needs any extended discussion. Its main features are quite explicit. First one sees the splitting of the patient into himself and Jerry which is a frequent dream device indicating different aspects of adaptation to ’ reality (here inner, instinctive [libido] drive). Previous analyses, as well as association material with this dream, reveals “ Jerry ” as his inferior, i.e., regres¬ sive immature, infantile and adolescent (narcissistic introjection) split off, sexuality. It was by Jerry that, from 12 to 13 years of age, he was first initiated into the pleasures of mutual masturbation. Jerry also had in these early experiences made sodomistic advances and encouragement (pregenital anal-erotic organization stage). The patient states these did not interest him consciously but efforts at seduction of little girls through Jerry’s leadership was much in evidence after twelve. The $1.00 and the $.50 detail are, I take it, as expressing both the (1) adolescent and (5) finger (handling, feel-