CASE HISTORIES 9! 



would only increase desire. He felt that way after fellatio with 

 the negro boy, but he never succumbed again. 



Fantasies: The first intelligible fantasy he gave evidence of 

 was concerning hair. To grow long hair and leave it uncut 

 was necessary in order to excel in health and potency. If a man 

 cut his hair while a woman let hers grow, she became the stronger 

 and sucked his strength. He grew a beard in order to look like 

 his father who had been a hairy man and had always worn a 

 beard. 



Sometimes the voices mentioned birth, sucking a cow, fellatio, 

 or son-of-a-bitch, and he thought persons left an influence behind 

 in every place they had been. The influences left behind by old 

 men bothered him particularly. 



When the attendant tried to get him to help in the ward work, 

 the voices objected and said the attendant was supposed to do it 

 himself. 



During a moderately dull period in the fourth month he 

 suddenly divulged a mass of sexual fantasies, all of them con- 

 cerned with the maintenance of potency. " If a father has coitus 

 with the mother while he thinks of a living child, he takes strength' 

 out of the child and puts it into the mother. When the mother 

 gets old and her sexual organs become flabby, that makes the son 

 weak, for there is a sexual sympathy between mother and son.. 

 The son should then leave home. My father wanted me to get 

 out. That was probably the reason. If parents still have inter- 

 course after they have ceased to be able to beget children, it 

 sucks the strength of their son. It was using up my manhood. 

 Before I caught them at coitus I was sucking their strength. 

 Afterwards I lost strength because they sucked mine. Probably 

 a mother, when she and the father get old and sexually weak and 

 their son is passionate and ready to go with girls, goes to the 

 house of prostitution ahead of her son, disguises herself with 

 paint and short dresses so he doesn't recognize her, and has inter- 

 course with him, getting his passion to bolster up her own so she 

 can use it with the father. My parents were reported dead and 

 yet I saw my father off on the lawn a few days ago, so my 

 mother is probably alive too. I have no doubt she has had 

 intercourse with me to get my passion away. She pretended 



