4 CASE HISTORIES 



days. Neither in navy or hospital did he associate with anybody. 

 He denied hallucinations and delusions. 



Sex life: He was very reticent about his sex history and 

 thoughts, and resisted questioning passively but effectively, 

 answering "I don't know. If that is universal as you say, then 

 probably I must have experienced it also. I don't remember." 

 He claimed to have no memory of masturbating but perhaps he 

 had done- it as a child. He denied having heterosexual inter- 

 course, but once when he was feeling lonely he had paid a girl 

 to strip before him, and he stript too, but what happened after 

 that he "couldn't remember." He liked to dance, but wasn't 

 much of a ladies' man. They never liked him, but men did. 

 " It is not desirable to change my temperament. I couldn't 

 marry for I had no money. A student has no money. I didn't 

 focus my attention on any particular girl. I wasn't ready to 

 marry. I didn't have the time to bother No, that isn't correct, 

 I had lots of time." Nothing could be elicited on the subject of 

 perversions. " I'm sure I can't remember whether I've ever 

 heard of them or not." He used to have two or three night 

 pollutions a month, usually after a heavy supper. He could 

 remember no accompanying dreams. 



Fantasies: Most of his time was spent in thinking, but he 

 was disinclined to tell what about, " I don't think of anything in 

 particular. I think of books I've read. I began day-dreaming 

 in Russia. Here in this country students play baseball and foot- 

 ball and haven't much time for thinking. I think of my boyhood 

 in Russia, of my relatives, of past experiences and scenes, of 

 people I've met, fancies, imagination. Fancy is playful, colorful 

 imagination. I don't think of one continuous thing. I make no 

 effort to. One thought follows another. A young man naturally 

 has fancies, dreams of the future. As a school boy I dreamed 

 of writing books, but I'm not good at fiction. I'm better at close 

 thinking, reasoning, philosophy. It is impossible to think of 

 nothing. I was evading the issue. A person doesn't like to tell 

 his thoughts. ("Are they of love?" He snickers.) Yes, I used 

 to study belles lettres, be romantic, but now I'm like Benjamin 

 Franklin with both feet on the ground, a practical man. He was 

 a good model for me. 



