26 CASE HISTORIES 



proved. He voluntarily joined in the work of the ward and soon 

 was making all the beds. His facial expression looked somewhat 

 less worried. 



Four months later: I found him lying on his face on the 

 corridor floor. When I roused him he recognized me at once. 

 He said he was much bothered in mind. He had given up going 

 to town on theater parties for he couldn't keep his mind on the 

 play, nor could he concentrate enough to do occupational work. 



Mental diagnosis: Schizophrenia with projection. All his 

 improper sexual cravings were projected onto other people or on 

 voices. He had no insight whatever and resisted any explanation. 

 His resistance to kissing his mother and sister clearly indicated 

 incestuous impulses as did also the dream connecting his mother 

 with green bananas (immature or stiff penises?). Probably this 

 incest resistance was what rendered him impotent towards a 

 woman after once he had intercourse with her and she had be- 

 come familiar. Being thus hindered in getting his libido over to 

 the other sex, his homosexual cravings became very strong. He 

 did not succumb to them but protected himself through disgust. 

 Not being able to repress the cravings and too horrified to recog- 

 nize them as his own, he was forced to project them. His recent 

 sexual impotence was probably a defense against the perverse 

 cravings. At night he still had orgasms but the dreams were 

 repressed. In the former wet dreams of the two playing dogs 

 the real meaning was sufficiently disguised. Now the meaning 

 of his wet dreams was probably too apparent to allow them to be 

 recalled. He accepted dreams as products of his own mind and 

 did not blame them on outside influence. 



The continual influence came of course from his unconscious. 

 During glandular feeding he was able to completely repress his 

 unconscious thinking for brief periods, but with total lack of 

 insight. After the feeding was stopped the repressed thinking 

 became too strong once more. Except for his inability to repress 

 the obnoxious cravings and the splitting of consciousness which 

 resulted, his mind did not seem deteriorated. He was perfectly 

 oriented, his memory was good, and he could talk intelligently. 



